Tom Fate will share strategies intended to inspire your writing. These strategies will also be useful for other genr es such as fiction and poetry. This workshop will not include in-depth wri ting\; however\, bring a pen and paper or a laptop for brief generative ex ercises and to capture your ideas. \;
\nTom Montgomery Fate \;is a professor emeritus at College DuPage in Glen Ellyn\, IL\, where he taught creative writing and literature courses for more than 30 years. He is the author of six books of creative nonfiction\, including \;The Lon g Way Home: Detours and Discoveries\, a travel memoir (Ice Cube Press\, 2022)\, \;Cabin Fever\, a nature memoir ( Beacon Press)\, and \;Steady and Trembling\, 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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