May 8, Salida Library, Wed. at 5:30 pm
https://www.arapahoe.edu/events/annual-spring-literary-festival
Writing Historical Fiction Workshop: Truth and Invention in Historical Fiction
Led by Annie Dawid
Annual Spring Literary Festival
Date 03-23-24
Time 08:00 am ~ 05:00 pm
Students with ideas about historical fiction can learn how to research, plan and write fiction based on real-life stories. Presenter will offer a schematic from her own novel, PARADISE UNDONE: A NOVEL OF JONESTOWN, offering tips and warnings about how to deal with using facts in a novel or short story. We will ask what are the advantages/disadvantages in writing fiction as opposed to non-fiction about the subject at hand, and consider what various ratios of truth and invention can provide for both authors and readers. Students should prepare by choosing an historical subject — 20th century and earlier — and pick one useful volume of relevant research and bring it to the workshop, if possible. If all research is online, please bring laptop.
Annie Dawid teaches creative writing at the University College, University of Denver. She was formerly professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Annie won the 2022 Screencraft Award in the Cinematic Novel and the 2022 Short Story award from Chipping Norton (UK). Other awards include the Dana Award in the Essay, the Orlando Flash Fiction Award, The New Rocky Mountain Voices Award (drama) and the Northern Colorado Award in Creative Non-Fiction.
Her novel PARADISE UNDONE: A NOVEL OF JONESTOWN was published 11/18/23, the 45th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre by Inkspot Publishing of the UK and distributed worldwide. The book has received a half-dozen positive reviews thus far, and she has been on 6 podcast-interviews, available online. Her fifth book, PUT OFF MY SACKCLOTH, was published in 2021 by The Humble Essayist Press. It was a finalist for the International Rubery Award in Non-Fiction. Her poetry chapbook, ANATOMIE OF THE WORLD, was published in 2017 by Finishing Line Press.
Book Launch with 30 people held February due to Snow Date. Follow-up article in Wet Mountain Valley Tribune by Elliott Jackson
| Jan. 12, 2024 Nov. 16, 2023 Nov. 17, 2023 | USA Book launch at Westcliffe Library Annie Dawid will discuss Jonestown and her book at THE OWL BOOKSHOP 207-209 Kentish Town Road London NW5 2JU on Thursday 16th November 2023 6.30pm – 8pm Attendance is free, but please RSVP to cathy@inkspotpublishing.comfor catering purposes.  At the invitation of ChipLitFest, Annie will also appear at The Town Hall, Chipping Norton, OX7 5NJ Friday 17th November 5 – 6.30pm. Attendance is free, but a ticket is required. ALL proceeds from book sales and the bar will go towards ChipLitFest’s schools programme, promoting literacy to school age children. At both events, Annie will discuss her inspiration for the book, and the multitude of sources she accessed to shed light on the real people behind the tragedy, as those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. |
| May 15, 2021 | Book launch of Sackcloth at Brookwood Gallery, 4-6 pm, reading/signing/wine and cheese. 211 Main Street, Westcliffe. Call Annie for more information 719 371 1647 |
| November 05, 2016 | Award-Winning Novel Beginnings Author Annie Dawid read from several openings, including her 2016 International Rubery Award Winner YORK FERRY, and conducted a workshop in which participants analyzed the components of a compelling novelistic start. See an article on the event in this news clipping. |
| Oct. 22, 2016 | Castle Rock Writer’s Workshop “Yours, Mine, Hers: Point of View in Short Fiction” |
| Sept. 24-Oct. 22 | All Things Must Pass | Still Life Cottonwood Center for the Arts 427 E. Colorado Ave. 520-1899 Annie’s assemblage, “Spools” |
| Summer 2016 | Assemblages, Faculty Art Show, Arapahoe Community College |
| May 2016 | Annie’s Assemblages at the Monument library. |
| April 23, 2016 | Mountain Of Authors, Colorado Springs 21C Library Click here for more information. |
| February 2016 | WAVES: A Feminist Retrospective. A Poetry and Fiction Reading. Click here for more information. |
| November 2015 | Annie Dawid will be giving a free fiction workshop at Monument Library, Saturday, November 7th, 10-noon. The focus of the workshop will be on character development. Click here for more information. |
| September 2015 | September 15: Host SETH and featuring Annie Dawid! Click here for more information. |
| September 2015 | Story Project. September 11 in Manitou Springs and September 27 in Colorado Springs. Click here for more information. |
| September 2015 | Art Show: “Nature Works.” Bear Creek Nature Center. 245 Bear Creek Road, Colorado Springs, CO. |
| July – August 2015 | Art Show: Assemblages. Once in a Blue Moon Art Show. The Gallery at Heritage Organics. 78 N. Precision Dr., Pueblo West, CO. |
| July – August 2015 | Art Show: Assemblages. Pikes Peak Library 21 C Branch. 1175 Chapel Hills Dr., Colorado Springs, CO. |
| August 2015 | Non-fiction Fellowship Catamaran Literary Conference. Pebble Beach, California. Click here for more information. |
| July, 2015 | Art Show: Photographs. “How Do You See God?” Academy Art & Frame Company. 7560 N. Academy Blvd., Colorado Springs, CO. |
| July, 2015 | Art Show: Photographs. Wesley Owens Coffee. 1744 Lake Woodmoor Dr., Monument, CO. |
| June 1, 2015 | Instagraph: Flash Prose. Castle Rock Writers reading and workshop with non-fiction writer Kathryn Winograd. |
| April 28, 2015 | Women Write the Rockies Reading will be held on April 28 at 12:00 noon at the Community College of Denver, Auraria campus in the Multicultural Lounge in the Tivoli Building. |
| March 2015 | The Story Project. March 13 in Manitou Springs. March 29 in Colorado Springs. Click here for more information. |
| October 23, 2014 | Writers Studio presents Instagraph: Flash Prose on Thursday, Oct. 23, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Castle Rock Campus. Join our first Thursday Evening Writer event and discover the art of flash fiction and nonfiction with award-winning essayist Kathy Winograd and flash fiction prize winner Annie Dawid. This one-hour, co-taught workshop will be followed by a light buffet and reading.Click here for information. |
| May 2014 | Calendar Art Show at the Third Street Gallery in Westcliffe, May 2014 CALENDAR: “Silver Cliff Artifacts” for 2015 SAG Calendar, juried |
| September 6-7, 2013 | Annie’s 10-minute play, “GUNPLAY,” will be produced Sept 6-7 at the Jones Theater in Westcliffe. |
| July 20, 2013 July 13-21, 2013 | Annie will read with other faculty members at The Sagebrush Inn, Taos Summer Writers Conference, 5:30 pm, Saturday July 20. Free and open to the public. Annie’s summer workshop at Taos Summer Writers Conference |
| July 12-31, 2013 | Annie will have her artwork featured at TYPOGRAPHIQUE, opening reception Friday July 12, 5-7:30 pm at Pikes Peak Community College Downtown Art Gallery, 100 W. Pikes Peak Ave. Show runs to July 31. |
| Feb. 10, 2013 | Annie will be showing her artwork at the Jones Theater in Westcliffe to accompany the In- Concert Sunday afternoon show by Jayme Stone’s Room of Wonders, with banjo, guitar, viola da gamba, violin, and bass. Their repertoire ranges from Bach to bluegrass. |
| Aug. 4, 2012 | The Omega Workshops Revisited, a featured artist exhibition at the 3rd Street Gallery, 59000 N. Hwy 69 in Westcliffe, Colorado. Opening Aug 4, 4:00 – 7:00 pm. The show will be up July 26 – Aug 25, gallery open Thursday – Monday, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm. |
The Omega Workshops Revisited, a featured artist exhibition at the 3rd Street Gallery, 59000 N. Hwy 69 in Westcliffe, Colorado. Openng Aug 4, 4:00 – 7:00 pm. The show will be up July 26 – Aug 25, gallery open Thursday – Monday, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm. | |
