Summer 2010 Young Adult and Adult Writing Workshops
with Peter Beaven & Associates in Andover, Massachusetts.

Multi-genre Creative Writing Workshops ~
Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-fiction for ages 13-15 and 16-18.
Sessions: Late June and/or Late August.
2 weeks – three times a week – two hour meetings.
1 week Mon-Friday -- two hour meetings daily.
Enrollment 12 maximum.
Tuition Fee: $400.
If interested, please call Peggy Rambach (978-470-2619) or Peter Beaven & Associates.

Here’s an opportunity to work with local Andover author, Peggy Rambach, in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. Plan to present your work for discussion, affirmation, a sense of camaraderie, and critique. Then you’ll be able to apply specific suggestions to your revision that develop and deepen your work. Ms. Rambach encourages you to determine your own topics and you need only bring paper, pen and curiosity to the first class. All workshops culminate with a reading for family, friends and the public, and the publication of completed work on Ms. Rambach and Peter Beaven & Associates’ websites. Publication and participation in the reading is optional. Participants should expect to write outside of class subsequent to the first meeting, and the price includes the instructor’s margin comments and editorial suggestions, as well as optional once-a-week email correspondence.

Inter-Generational Memoir Writing Workshop
Sessions: Late June and/or Late August.
2 weeks – three times a week – two hour meetings.
1 week Mon-Friday -- two hour meetings daily.
Enrollment 12 maximum.
Tuition Fee: $400.
If interested, please call Peggy Rambach (978-470-2619) or Peter Beaven & Associates.

Break down the generational divide and join the Memoir Writing Workshop designed for youth (ages 15-18) and adults (ages 65 and up), under the guidance of author, Peggy Rambach. You’ll learn to dramatize your past and navigate the complexities of the present in the form of memoir, and by sharing it with an older or younger generation, you’ll explore aspects of change and continuity, and discover what we can learn from each other at any stage of life. The class culminates with an optional reading and publication on the web, and members need only arrive at the first class with pen and paper. Participants should expect to write outside of class subsequent to the first class meeting. Computer literacy is helpful, but not required. The price includes the instructor’s margin comments and editorial suggestions as well as optional once-a-week email correspondence.

Writing the Essay: For those who fear, loathe or who are indifferent to the essay form
Sessions: Late June and/or Late August.
2 weeks – three times a week – two hour meetings.
1 week Mon-Friday -- two hour meetings daily.
Enrollment 12 maximum.
Tuition Fee: $400.
If interested, please call Peggy Rambach (978-470-2619) or Peter Beaven & Associates.

This is a class for the reluctant writer, the adult returning to school, or for a student of any age who wishes to increase his or her confidence and skill and maybe even his or her enthusiasm for all forms of the essay: With innovative approaches, using fine art, literature, your local newspaper and possible alien landings…Ms Rambach will help you take command of the much maligned and dreaded essay form. You’ll learn to write essays that describe a personal experience, essays that analyze and critique, essays that compare and contrast, and essays that persuade the reader of your impassioned viewpoint and you might even learn to like writing them! The price includes the instructor’s margin comments and editorial suggestions as well as optional once-a-week email correspondence.

Author, Peggy Rambach, runs creative writing workshops in community education settings for the Healing Arts in health care, correctional facilities, ESL programs and immigrant support centers as well as offering assistance with lesson plans in professional development presentations for middle and high school teachers. She teaches memoir writing in medical schools as part of the curriculum in Narrative Medicine and Medical Humanities. Ms. Rambach is conveniently located for teachers, students and participants from throughout New England including the Vermont (VT) cities of Bennington, Burlington and Montpelier, the Maine (ME) cities of Portland, Gardener, Kennebunkport and York, the New Hampshire (NH) cities of Portsmouth, Concord, Manchester, Dover, Nashua and Rochester, the Massachusetts (MA) cities of Boston, Newburyport, Amherst, North Hampton, Salem, Beverly, Lawrence, Lowell, Haverhill, Gloucester, Plymouth, New Bedford, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Rockport, Hyannis, and Falmouth, the Rhode Island (RI) cities of Providence and Newport and the Connecticut (CT) cities of New Haven and Hartford.