The Fall Schedule has just been released from the Northwest SPokenword LAB, (SPLAB!) a community center that uses Literary Arts to build community in downtown Auburn, Washington.

In addition to the fourth Underage Poetry Slam season, workshops on Oral Poetry, Short-Story Writing, and Healing Poetry, World Heavyweight Champion Poet Victor Hernandez Cruz will lead a workshop and do a reading at the SPLAB on Nov. 7th.

19th Draft, Auburn's Literary Arts Group will expand back to the 2nd AND 4th Thursday of each month with a Writing Workshop for writers to bring pieces to workshop and/or participate in writing exercises being honed by the SPLAB-on-the-Road crew.

Here is the Fall '98 Schedule for the Northwest SPokenword LAB in Auburn, WA:

Powerful Glimpses: A Short Story Workshop facilitated by Steve Potter. Saturday, September 26th, 11A-3P. Suggested donation $10.00, $5.00 for Seniors, free to teens.

"The short story writer's task is to invest the glimpse with all that is in his power."Raymond Carver, Fires.

In this workshop we will tell stories from our lives and practice writing vignettes to help develop a stronger understanding of what it is that makes certain stories unforgettable. We will also examine a number of short stories and discuss the qualities that make them memorable and effective. Stories examined will include works by two or three of the following authors, as yet to be decided: Aesop, Sherman Alexie, J.G. Ballard, Donald Barthelme, Rebecca Brown, Raymond Carver Anton Chekov, John Cheever, the Brothers Grimm, Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Jackson, Denis Johnson, Gordon Lish, Flannery O'Conner, Tillie Olsen and Hubert Selby Jr. Don't feel you need to read any or all of these authors beforehand (although, if you have some time, of course do!) just bring pen and paper and the desire to write.