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About Algonkian
 An Intense Five Day Small-Group Conference For Novel and Fiction Writers of All Genres
Immersed in oceanic tropics at the core of mythical Key Largo, Algonkian students will study and apply techniques of craft, style, and complication learned from such dramatists and authors as Sue Monk Kidd, Mitch Albom, Raymond Carver, Gail Godwin, E. Annie Proulx, Nathaniel West, Arthur Miller, Michael Chabon, Flannery O'Connor, Barbara Kingsolver, Tennessee Williams, Robert Graves, Nabokov, and many others. Writers, regardless of experience, will come away from this five day intensive with the specific knowledge it takes to create intellectual and powerful fiction. The workshop leader will not only review promising novel and short story concepts and pass them on to an agent who works with Algonkian, but will also devote workshop time to high concept pitching, and other aspects of fiction-to-film. We want to help you get published, and discuss the potential of turning your fiction into film. Students will also learn ALL THEY NEED TO KNOW about the publishing market. As a bonus, the perfect query letter and synopsis are included. STEPS:Please apply by using our Algonkian Key Largo application form. Registration payment is due upon your acceptance into the workshop. A secure credit card processor is available below for registration payment, or by certified mail and payable to "The Algonkian Key Largo Workshop." The total fee for the five day workshop is $1,165.00 and that includes your private room at the Bayside Resort for five nights, tuition, breakfast/lunch, a working day trip in the Keys, plus the Algonkian Workshop instructional materials, guides, and exercises. Transportation to and from Miami airport arranged for workshop participants at no extra cost. More information about the Bayside Resort below.
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About The Chief Editor and Workshop Leader
Michael has eight years editorial experience in the literary publication business and in working with other editors and writers to hone short fiction and novels into publishable work. In 2001, he was chosen by Writer's Digest as their finalist fiction judge. Fiction published and edited by Michael routinely attracts attention from the best agencies in the country. An interview with him by Poets and Writers magazine can be found here, and his popular agent interview series can be found here.
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For serious writers who wish to either begin the novel, or work towards perfecting their novel-in-progress (while also learning to write short fiction), Algonkian has put together a team of five of the best professionals on the east coast to work with our fiction craft workshops in Key Largo. They include agent Jenny Bent from Trident Media in NYC; Denise Duhamel, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at FIU; John Dufresne, Professor of Creative Writing at FIU; Michael Neff, fiction editor and workshop leader; and author/editor Charles Salzberg of the New York Writers Workshop and The New School. More on them below. Please note that meetings with faculty will be non-conference type, i.e., intimate and relaxed, but that students will work 40+ hours on readings, exercises, and other assignments. 
Jenny Bent, agent from Trident Media in NYC, will attend the Key Largo workshop to meet with students and discuss their work as well as the publishing biz. Trident Media represents such esteemed clients as Garrison Keillor and Michael Ondaatje ("The English Patient"). More on Jenny and her projects, both fiction and non-fiction, can be 
Denise Duhamel, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at FIU, will attend the Key Largo workshop. Denise, a writer and prose poet, has won several awards including the Vogelstein Foundation award and an award from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her books include "Exquisite Politics" and "Girl Soldier."
John Dufresne is a Professor in the Masters Creative Writing Program at FIU and a winner of a PEN Syndicated Fiction award. His novel "Louisiana Power & Light" was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1994, and "Love Warps the Mind a Little," a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997. His superb short fiction has appeared in many journals, including Missouri Review. 
Algonkian chief fiction editor, Michael Neff, will be the workshop leader in Key Largo. More on him can be 
At the request of Algonkian, and at no extra cost to students, editor and author Charles Salzberg will provide post-conference market analysis of each student's pitch and synopsis. More information on Charles 
Directions to the Bayside Resort can be found 
For your convenience, we've included below some links to Key Largo activities.
Michael Neff is a fiction editor, writer, teacher, and publisher. He is the founder and chief editor of