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About Chris DeLorenzo

Chris DeLorenzoMy background is in fiction and memoir, although I also seem to have become a poet by default. I studied the history of writing workshops and conducted my first workshop as an undergraduate at Hampshire College, in Amherst, Massachusetts (1992). After I returned to the Bay Area, I graduated from the University of San Francisco (USF) with a MA in Writing (1998), where I wrote a fictionalized memoir for my major project (Certain Sacred Places).

While I was enrolled in the MA program at USF, I continued to study the Amherst Writers and Artists method, created by Pat Schneider with a peer in Oakland. Later, I completed the intensive training program in the AWA method and I now train others in this method.

(Click here if you're interested in coming to the next AWA training in California).

I have been leading my own San Francisco workshops since 1999.

I am a part-time instructor at USF--although I'm curerently on leave of absence--where I teach academic research writing. I have taught creative writing classes (short story, memoir and editorial) at the Academy of Art and Skyline College, and I currently teach a class called "Exploring Your Writer's Voice," at the Writing Salon in San Francisco.

In addition to teaching, I have been published in several on-line publications, was a regular contributor to the on-line magazine for Match.com (now defunct), and continue to publish poetry in literary magazines. I have written a novel, All That Remains, which I am currently revising. I am also developing a new novel that's been sifting around in my imagination for a few years now, which I sometimes work on (and read from) during the workshops. The working title is Not a Love Story.

If you'd like to read some of my writing, and to try out some of my prompts, please check out my blog.

 

 




 

 
 
 
 

2010 Retrreats:

TWO DAY RETREAT Forestville, CA

Saturday and Sunday

April 17th and 18th

THREE DAY RETREAT Santa Barbara, CA

June 11th-13th

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2010 Workshops:

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Spring

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Tuesdays
March 31st - May 25th

Thursdays
April 1st - May 27th

Saturday Workshop
June 5th

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Summer

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Tuesdays
June 22nd - August 31st
No meeting July 6th& August 3rd

Thursdays
June 24th - September 2nd
No meeting July 8th& August 5th

Saturday Workshop
September 4th

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International Retreat!

Umbria, Italy

September 18th-25th

SAVE THE DATE!

MORE INFO SOON!

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Fall

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Tuesdays
Oct. 5th - Dec. 14th
No meeting Oct. 12th & Nov. 23rd

Thursdays
Oct. 7th - Dec. 16th
No meeting Oct. 14h & Nov. 25th

Saturday Workshop
December 4th

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Winter 2011

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International Retreat!

Zona Romantica

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

January 9th-16th, 2011

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