Patricia Eakins :: Writing Workshop in Costa Rica

WRITING WORKSHOP IN COSTA RICA

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***The Annual Zona Sur Writers' Camp***

Workshop led by Patricia Eakins
Individual manuscript assessments by Patricia Eakins and Bronwyn Mills

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Spend a week up in a tiny mountain village in the Los Santos region of Costa Rica. Patricia will lead midday workshops; you will have mornings and afternoons for developing your work, scheduling your private sessions with Patricia and Bronwyn--or you can just say, "Oh ,bother!" and take a break. Go sight a quetzal. Get a " cafecita" or fresh juice and a snack at Don Lorenzo's tiny roadside cafe. Maybe catch a trout from a mountain stream or go down to Santa Maria and send off your email from the local internet cafe.

Evenings, we'll have roundtable discussions on topics of interest, a fireside chat (in the summer the mountains are refreshingly cool at night), readings of all participants' work.

After the workshop week we'll meander down the mountainside and spend two days at Manuel Antonio National Park and the Quepos beach area.

You get the picture: Relaxation, inspiration, creation...

Toucanet lodge will be our mountain headquarters. They provide simple, clean accommodations, three delicious meals, and magnificent views. They also offer options to hike the rainforest, do some birdwatching, tour a coffee plantation, see an old-fashioned oxen-powered "trapiche" (sugar mill), soak in a hot springs, or even ride a horse.

Fees for 2005 workshop to be announced.

Patricia Eakins's novel The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Batiste was awarded both the Capricorn Prize and the NYU Press Prize for Fiction. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Parnassus, Storia, Conjunctions, and The Paris Review, from which she received the Aga Khan Prize. An experienced workshop leader, she has taught at Trinity College, NYU, and The New School. Her fiction is the subject of Reading Patricia Eakins, just out from the University of Orléans Press (France).

Bronwyn Mills, Director of Zona Sur: Provides travel-based Costa-Rican learning journeys for students at Stevens Institute of Technology. (Currently developing intern-exchange program.) Lecturer in Caribbean and World literature, fiction writer, and poet, with an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She is Senior Editor of FRIGATE, an online magazine of arts and culture, and is currently working on a magical realist novel, BEASTLY.

Guillermo Canessa, biologist, President of CANUTUR, the Los Santos Regional Board of Tourism, with a Masters in Wildlife Management from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.Guillermo has been instrumental in developing the national park system of Costa Rica. He has more than twenty-five years of experience leading tours for such organizations as the Sierra Club, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Audubon Society. He has also arranged tours for U.S. university classes visiting Costa Rica.