By Cunning & Craft, a new guide to creative writing by Peter Selgin

Recent Books by Peter Selgin
By CUNNING & CRAFT:
Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers
"This is a book for serious fiction writers of all levels-from beginner to advanced and beyond, including accomplished authors wishing to fine-tune their craft. It aims to provide actionable advice, and plenty of it, yet offers no glib formulas or panaceas. Those seeking a writing guide that tells them, in so many words, that writing fiction is easy and that anyone can do it, should probably look elsewhere. Such guides exist and are hugely popular. As is so often the case, the truths of the matter are less obviously appealing, and are as follows: that writing fiction is indeed hard, that it takes time and energy and effort, that if everyone could do it, it wouldn't be worth doing; at any rate, it would be no more worth doing than riding a bicycle, or whistling."
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Peter Selgin's short stories, BODIES OF WATER, winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Prize, coming in the Fall of 2008 by University of Georgia Press.

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PETER SELGIN Narrative Prose Writing Workshop in June 2010,at Centro Pokkoli DATES: June 13-June 20th 2010


Cari Amici,
This coming June I will be leading my third
annual writing workshop in Vitorchiano,
Italy. This one-week workshop offers a great opportunity to focus on your
creative work in a stunning setting--a walled
medieval village in the rugged, hazelnut-tree lined
hills north of Rome. In addition to the
workshop, seminars and one-on-one tutorials,
we'll visit lovely Italian gardens, castles,
and picturesque towns. A week of
beauty, inspiration, free-flowing wine, food,
and conversation.

Whether your focus is fiction or nonfiction,
memoir or novel, I hope you'll take advantage
of this opportunity to enjoy the beauty and
culture of Italy while working on your writing.

Participants will also receive an advance
copy of THE SECRET LIFE OF FICTION: 199
Meditations for Writers, my new writing book,
distilling the wisdom of dozens of writers
workshops, with meditations on everything
from titles to settings, to the historical
uses (and abuses) of autobiography in literature.

For more information, visit my
website peter selgin

Hope to see you there, Peter Selgin

Our Writers

Pokkoli Writers Gallery
Featuring an interview with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa , author of Daughters of Stone and Karen Toloui of San Francisco, June 2009 resident at Centro Pokkoli
Linda Lappin
author of The Etruscan (Wynkin Deworde, 2004) and Katherine's Wish co-director of Centro Pokkoli Workshop leader for the "Spirit of Place" Creative Writing Online Workshops now available
Peter Selgin
novelist, writing teacher, and painter, author of By Cunning and Craft, Ten Lessons for Fiction Writers Writers Digest Books 2007. Join Peter at Centro Pokkoli for his fiction writing workshop in June 2010
Cecilia Woloch
Poet, multigenre workshop teacher. No workshops scheduled for 2009 Check back for information
Chef Sergio
founder and director of Centro Pokkoli. Instructor for "Survival Italian," Italian culture and cuisine workshops. Discover his recipe memoirs here.
Thomas E. Kennedy
author of The Copenhagen Quartet