Fiction Workshop with Dennis Held
February 6 & 7, 2004

Lost Horse Press and the Sandpoint Library announce a winter FICTION WORKSHOP featuring Dennis Held to be held on Friday, 6 February from 5 pm until 8 pm and Saturday, 7 February from 10 am until 4 pm. The workshop will take place in the Rude Girls Room of the Sandpoint Library. Tuition is $75.

One of the West's great writers, William Kittredge, once said that the key to improving your writing is to "increase the reader's emotional response to the work." Dennis Held's hands-on workshop is designed to help beginning and intermediate writers sharpen their writing and editing skills. (While the focus will be on short stories, writers of nonfiction should also benefit from this class.) Bring fifteen copies of work: up to five pages from a short story or essay. (Don't worry—the atmosphere of this workshop will be helpful and supportive, not crabby and hyper-critical. But come prepared to have work critiqued by others.)

Dennis Held lives in Spokane, Washington, but was raised in Wisconsin, so he loves all this snow we've been getting. He is a free-lance writer and editor with ten years of college-level teaching experience. Nowadays, he teaches writing workshops for adults and children (and some who are both). His book of poems, Betting on the Night, was published by Sandpoint's Lost Horse Press. His essay about fiction writer David Long was recently published in the Dictionary of Literary Biography.

In addition, a reading & book signing featuring Dennis Held will take place at Sandpoint Library lobby on Saturday, 7 February 2004 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Admission to the public is free and all are welcome to attend; refreshments will be served.

For more information about the fiction writing workshop or Dennis Held's reading or to register for the workshop, please call Lost Horse Press at 208.255.4410 or email losthorsepress@mindspring.com.