The Writing Salon is currently in its "less than two-weeks to go" countdown until the next session of classes starts. It's during this time that I encourage teachers to stop being so modest and/or shy, and strut their stuff (impressive credentials, recent publications or awards, etc.) a bit more.
I do this because, yes, it's good PR when you don't have much money to advertise and are confronting the challenge of trying to fill creative writing classes during a recession. Potential students sit up and take more notice, for example, when I say: Our poetry teacher Julie Bruck had a poem come out in the New Yorker on June 29th.
Which she did. I just read it and quite enjoyed my "afternoon poetry moment."
You can read it HERE, now (it's set in Santa Rosa, btw, and is titled The "World- Famous" Lipizzaners.
Julie is teaching three classes in SF this summer, a half-day mini-workshop, a 9-week workshop, and a 6-month "continuation" class.
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