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Sallie's posts tagged ‘writing workshops’

On Memoir

February 11th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 3 Comments

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Memoir writing is a much more serious task than it’s often considered to be. It’s not informal, it’s not casual. It really is the writing of history.

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Writing What You Don’t Know

August 2nd, 2023 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 3 Comments

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Writing workshop wisdom used to be write what you know, a doctrine I’ve found increasingly confining.

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Writing Memoir/Writing History

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We need to expand our understanding of memoir; it is actually the writing of history from often ignored points of view.

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Why Teach

March 25th, 2021 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 1 Comment

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I want to persuade writers to use all five senses in their writing, instead of just the visual—and to sharpen visual descriptions with fresh, unexpected adjectives.

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Forgiveness

February 21st, 2021 by Sallie Bingham in Writing Leave a Comment

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One of the problems with memoir writers, as I see it, is that we aim too low.

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I Can’t Teach You to Write

July 5th, 2020 by Sallie Bingham in Writing Leave a Comment

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What I can inspire, if not teach, is the appetite for putting words down on the page that has been my theme and my salvation since I was a child.

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Taos Writers Conference

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From 9am to 12pm on Saturday, I’ll be teaching a workshop entitled, Notching it up: Using reading and writing to sharpen your writing skills. This brief video chat has more information about the content of the workshop.

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How to Write

March 18th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 12 Comments

As my biography of Doris Duke continues to simmer in the editing vats at Farrar, Straus, I must for my salvation begin to write—again.

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Upcoming Workshop: “When Words Really Matter”

January 19th, 2016 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 4 Comments

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For words really to matter, they must illuminate a larger reality than the inevitably small perimeters of our daily lives.

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What They Really Want Isn’t Fame or Fortune But Permission to Articulate Their Feelings

March 29th, 2012 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 2 Comments

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This essay, by Steve Almond, from the March 25th edition of The New York Times, comes like a bombshell, dispelling not only my notions about why people take the writing workshops I teach, but why I often find teaching them frustrating.

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Taken By The Shawnee

Taken By The Shawnee

July 6th, 2025
Sallie Bingham introduces and reads from her latest work, Taken by the Shawnee.
Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
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Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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