Mark Twain Museum Offers Adult Writers’ Workshops

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 December 2010 03:58 Friday, 12 June 2009 15:29


 Hannibal, Mo-- The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum in Hannibal, Missouri will begin offering adult writers’ workshops this fall for anyone interested in honing their creative writing skills.  Facilitated by Dr. Cindy Lovell, the museum’s executive director, the workshops will include aspects of Mark Twain’s advice to writers. 

All workshops will be held on Saturdays at the museum gallery.  Dates include September 12, October 10, and November 14.  Workshops will run from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.  Cost is $75 per workshop and includes a continental breakfast, lunch and a complimentary museum membership.  Space is limited, so early registration is encouraged.  Reservations may be made by calling 573-221-9010, ext. 401.   

Lovell has published numerous articles and essays, text book chapters and two children’s novels, Rachel Mason Hears the Sound and Not This Sunday.  She is presently working on a two-volume encyclopedia titled All Things Twain for Greenwood Press.  Lovell and museum curator, Henry Sweets, have hosted two weeklong writing workshops for young authors.  This generated many requests from adults to offer something similar. 

“We’ll begin with these one-day workshops and see if there is an interest in expanding them into something like a writers’ weekend at some point,” Lovell said.  “For now it will be fun to use Mark Twain’s writing advice as a jumping off point for writers.  It will be fun.”  Lovell hopes that writers will come from out of town to find inspiration in the town that Twain immortalized in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  Further information is available on the museum’s website: www.marktwainmuseum.org. 

 

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