It’s that time of year again, when the Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrushes begin to pop up to signal the coming of spring, and also the coming of The Writing Barn’s annual Full Novel Revision Week! Get ready for a week of intensive full manuscript revision!
Hear about what to expect from former faculty authors Shana Burg and Rita Williams-Garcia:
During this WEEK LONG INTENSIVE you will have the opportunity to:
- Attend faculty lectures, complete with Q&A and discussions
- Participate in extensive writing exercises led by an award-winning faculty
- Write and revise in your shared room at The Book House, on-the wooded 7.5-acre grounds, or on the party porch
- Benefit from small group sessions and group discussions
- Develop a revision plan
- Enjoy an evening reading or two, as workshop participants and faculty read from their work
- Meet and mingle with workshop participants from throughout the country
- Enjoy delicious vegetarian breakfast and lunches
- Walk the hike and bike trail at Austin’s Town Lake
- Take a refreshing dip in Austin’s Barton Springs
- Tour Austin indie BookPeople and meet with staff to hear about how best to work with booksellers
- Bond with faculty over board games, meals, around the fire pit and on the party porch in the evenings
- Meet Austin authors who may drop by The Writing Barn to say a special hello to YOU! Check out our Visiting Authors/Special Guests.
2015’s author faculty consists of authors Tim Wynne-Jones, Nicole Griffin and Joy Preble, with special guests Nikki Loftin, Anne Bustard and Brian Yansky! Craft-specific lectures are presented by each author, and will offer you helpful tools to use when revising in the future. So much can be learned at Full Novel Revision week! Take a look at some of previous mentees’ takeaways: