Fate will share strategies intended to ins pire your writing. These strategies will also be useful for other genres s uch as fiction and poetry. This workshop will not include in-depth writing \, however\, bring a pen and paper or laptop for brief generative exercise s and to capture your ideas. \;
\nTom Montgomery Fate \;is a professor emeritus at College DuPage in Glen Ellyn IL\, where he taught c reative writing and literature courses for more than 30 years. He is the a uthor of six books of creative nonfiction\, including \;The Long Way H ome: Detours and Discoveries\, a travel memoir (Ice Cube Press\, 2022)\,&n bsp\;Cabin Fever\, a nature memoir (Beacon Press)\, and \;Steady and T rembling\, a spiritual memoir (Chalice Press). A regular contributor to th e \;Chicago Tribune\, his essays have appeared in the \;Boston Glo be\, Baltimore Sun\, Orion\, The Iowa Review\, Christian Century\, Fourth Genre\, River Teeth\, and many others. Dozens of his essays have also aire d on NPR and Chicago Public Radio.
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