Pac Rim 2008 Info
Writing Our Story
A creative writing workshop with Patricia Wood
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008: 1:15 pm – 4:00 pm in the Waianae Room
How do we allow for greater understanding of disability culture and our lives? Learn the techniques needed to get the story started. Learn how to develop plots and characters. Learn more about the business of getting published and what it takes! Lots of fun exercises!
This workshop is for:
- Teachers who want to allow students to explore difference
- Persons with disabilities who want to write their story
- Persons who want to write fiction
- Bring your ideas, pen and paper and your creativity.
Patricia Wood will be happy to read and critique 5-7 pages of your manuscript up until two months after the workshop.
Biography
Patricia Wood is the author of the newly released book titled Lottery. She was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She has served in the U.S. Army, worked as a Medical Technologist, been a horseback-riding instructor, and most recently taught marine science in a public high school working with high-risk students in Honolulu. Patricia is an avid SCUBA diver, has assisted with shark research, won the Hawai‘i State Jumper Championship with her horse Airborne, and crewed in a 39-foot sailboat across the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu to San Francisco. Currently a PhD student at the University of Hawaii, her work is focused on education and the study of disability and diversity. Patricia lives with her husband, Gordon aboard ORION, a 48-foot sailboat moored in Hawai‘i. She has one son, Andrew who lives in Everett, where Lottery takes place.
On Lottery
“This wonderful first novel is about a guy who starts off with all the chips stacked against him and still comes out a winner. It’s an underdog
novel, and the underdog is a most satisfying hero, for more than any other protagonist, the underdog is the one we love to love...Patricia Wood’s portrait of Perry
is so vivid and funny and poignant and joyful that it avoids the disappointing flatness of the predictable.”—Washington Post
“Patricia Wood’s debut novel tickles your funny bone, tugs your heartstrings, and redefines the word ‘fortunate’ all at
once.”—Redbook
Learn more about Patricia Wood
