Wendy Call

Call is a Seattle-based writer, editor, and translator. She is co-editor of Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide (Plume/Penguin, 2007) and a recent Writer in Residence at Seattle University and Richard Hugo House. Her current writing projects, a narrative nonfiction book about southern Mexico and a series of personal essays about loss, are supported by grants from Artist Trust and 4Culture. You can read her work at www.wendycall.com.

Craig English

English is the co-author of Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices for the Chronically Nice, which was released nationally by Sourcebooks, Inc. in 2006. The book is now in its fourth printing and has been translated into Spanish and Greek. Other recent nonfiction includes “From Print to Performance,” an article on how to give a book reading in The Writer magazine (July 2007), and a contribution to The Idiot’s Guide to Getting Published (2006). Craig has been featured in recent articles by the Seattle Times, Santa Barbara News-Press and Next Step Magazine; he has also appeared as a guest on radio (including KUOW, Seattle) and television (including KING 5 Morning News with Joyce Taylor, NBC Seattle).

John B. Saul

Saul worked at the Seattle Times for 28 years, first as a copy editor, then as a news editor and finally as an assigning editor on the city desk. He directed coverage on local government, consumer affairs, transportation and special projects including a series commemorating the 150th anniversary of Seattle’s founding. Since 2005, Saul has been writing and editing as a freelancer and has taught reporting and editing at The University of Montana and Seattle University.

M. Susan Wilson

Wilson has worked in publishing for more than a decade. She has served as Managing Editor of four publications, including Spa Magazine (focused on healthy travel), Seattle Magazine, Seattle Bride, and Frontier Magazine (the in-flight publication of Frontier Airlines). In addition, her freelance writing has appeared on MSNBC.com, as well as in SHAPE, Ladies Home Journal, Washington Law & Politics, and the anthology Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Seal Press, 2007).

Guest Speakers

To be announced.

Instructors and guest speakers are subject to change.