Twin Farms Writers Workshops

2717 Wakefield Road
P.O. Box 250 Wakefield, NH 03872
tel. 603-522-3398 | email: tripletulip@roadrunner.com




Schedule for 2010, our fourteenth year

Workshop 1
July 25 (Sunday afternoon) - July 29 (after our Annual Barn Reading, starting at 7:30)
Instructor: Alice Fogel

This workshop is designed for more advanced writers or alumni, who wish to immerse themselves completely in writing and being with writers.

Regardless of your pursuit – be it short stories, poetry, memoir, or writing a novel – Twin Farms offers instruction and inspiration in a supportive environment where writers of all styles fit under one roof. A sense of community is encouraged among participants ranging in age from their early twenties through late seventies.

The class is limited to ten participants. Six students can be intern, each with a private room. The other four will commute from their home in our area or from The Wakefield Inn next door to Twin Farms.

Alice Fogel is an experienced teacher and published writer. Her most recent book Be That Empty was #8 on the National Poetry Bestseller List for four weeks in 2008. Publishers Weekly compares her work to Rilke's. Poet Charles Simic has said, "Her poems shine with intelligence. Fogel is a poet alert to every nuance of the inner life."

Currently, Alice is on the teaching staff of Colby-Sawyer College. She has taught at UNH, Salem College, Antioch College and at the New England College's MFA program. Alice teaches all disciplines of writing.

Besides being a successful writer and teacher, she is a "green" award-winning designer of one-of-a-kind clothing made of reprised materials.

To learn more about Alice visit her website: www.alicefogel.com

Workshop 2:
Tuesday, June 15 (9am-3pm daily) through Thursday, June 17
Instructor: Sarah Anderson

This workshop is for people who feel they carry a story inside, but need finesse and instruction to bring it out.

A blank page can be a scary thing if you have to fill it with your own words, especially when others will read those words.

Sarah Anderson will give you the courage to take up the pen and provide you with techniques to guide the words into a story or poem. Instruction and manuscript sharing will be given between 9-12 and after lunch from 1-3. This workshop will not have interns.

This will be Sarah’s third year of teaching at Twin Farms. She teaches senior English at Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH and is currently in her second year of working on her MFA. She lives with her husband and their three-year old son on a farm in Wakefield.

Workshop 3:
Sunday, August 1 (Arriving at 4pm) - through Tuesday, August 3 (afternoon)
Instructor: Sarah Anderson, assisted by Johanna Bozuwa

This workshop is for children between 10 and 14 years old. Its goal is to give free rein to their imagination while providing them with some tools to do so effectively through word games, examples and sharing.

Sarah and Johanna are both young and young at heart. They will make it fun to awaken the children's creative energy and give them an appreciation for the written word. Plenty of time will be allowed for taking a break, go swimming or play in the yard!

Johanna Bozuwa whose poems have been published in several publications, has attended many writers' workshops and starts college this fall. She is eighteen, lives in Norwich, VT with her parents and two younger sisters.
  Johanna Bozuwa

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What and Where?

Twin Farms is located in the historical district of Wakefield, which lies at the foot of the White Mountains and is part of the Lakes Region. Twin Farms is surrounded by seven acres of lawns and fields. Gijs and Titia Bozuwa are the owners. They make their home in one of the farms and make the other, called the Tripp House, available for the workshops.

The Tripp House has a large porch, where much of the activity takes place. The evening meals are taken communally in the restored barn. Instruction is given in the historic Public Wakefield Library next door.

At times that suit them best all participants in Workshop One make their own breakfast and lunch (the ingredients are provided) and the commuter students are invited to join and write in a quiet place in the barn or on the grounds...away from home... The interns will each have a private room. Mornings are left unscheduled. Afternoons are devoted to instruction and manuscript-sharing.

Participants in Workshop Two will be served a prepared lunch in the barn at noon. Participants in Workshop Three will each have a private room.

To apply for either one of the first two workshops, please send us an example of your work. It can be a short story, a poem or a well written letter. Not over eight pages, please. We will let you know as soon as possible whether you have been accepted.

Tuition and fees:

Workshop One:
Total $400 (interns)
Total $300 (commuters)
$50 deposit upon acceptance
(meals are included)

Workshop Two:
Total $185
$25 upon acceptance
(lunch included)

Workshop Three:
Total $100
$10 upon acceptance
(lodging and meals included)

 
Please note: Checks should be made out to Titia Bozuwa.
Titia is the workshops' coordinator.