Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts

Skill Level: Beginner To Advanced

Sugar Maples is thrilled to announce that for the first time in our history, we are offering an opportunity for those who would like to write. This will be a workshop with one of the country’s most special writers. If you are interested in writing about art, craft, or memoir, this workshop will infuse your thinking and writing with new ways of looking at our world of creativity. There will be discussions and exercises aimed at helping you hone your ideas, sharpen your vision, explore language, and experiment with the infinite ways of words. Learn how to construct and submit manuscripts for publication by journals, online media, and book publishers. Participants will have full access to our beautiful, sunny studio that’s replete with lots of table room, potters’ wheels, WIFI, art/craft library, and a supportive atmosphere. Note* You don’t have to be an artist to take this workshop!

Vince Montague received his Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from NYU in 1989 and soon after began publishing short stories in literary magazines. He also enjoyed a twenty-year career as an adjunct instructor of writing at colleges and universities around San Fransisco Bay Area. His late wife was a filmmaker and potter who died tragically in a car accident in 2009. During her lifetime, he never touched clay but after her death he began to study clay on his own. In 2014, he left his teaching career, reopened his wife’s ceramic studio and began making art for a living. Since that time, Vince has become a noted sculptor and ceramicist.

Montague’s stories and poems have been published in literary and academic journals, including California Quarterly, Westwind, The Florida Review, Talking River Review, Other Voices, Nimrod: An International Journal, and Green Mountain Review. He has been an artist-in-residence at Carrizozo AIR (New Mexico), Playa Summer Lake (Oregon), and Willapa Bay (Washington). His hybrid memoir, Cracked Pot, a broken chronicle of grief and art, was recently published by Latah Books.

Learn more: instagram.com/vincemontague

Fee: $325 + $40 Non-Refundable Registration Fee