..."a combination of Adrienne Rich and Holly Hughes, or maybe Courtney Love and Joan of Arc."
--Denise Duhamel, the Chiron Review

Janet Mason is an award winning writer. Her literary commentary is featured on This Way Out, an international radio syndicate aired on more than 400 radio stations in the U.S. and also in Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Europe. Her manuscript "Tea Leaves: a memoir of mothers and daughters" has been excerpted in The Advocate, Dutiful Daughters (from Seal Press) and Mom (from Alyson Books). Her chapbooks When I Was Straight and a woman alone are available through this website, click here.

Currently, she is working on a novel, and a published excerpt has been favorably mentioned in The Kirkus Review.

Her work has been published in more than sixty literary journals and anthologies, including the Brooklyn Review; American Writing; Chiron Review; Drive: Women's True Stories of the Open Road from Avalon Books; and Phoebe, a journal of feminist scholarship, published by SUNY. She has also been a frequent contributor to the Exquisite Corpse. Her poetry is included in THUS SPAKE THE CORPSE: AN EXQUISITE CORPSE READER, 1988-1998, edited by Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal, from Black Sparrow Press.

Janet has read and performed widely from Boston to New Orleans. For booking information or to inquire about bringing her to conduct a writing workshop, click here.

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Janet Mason is teaching a continuing education class at the Temple University Center City (TUCC) Philadelphia Campus

Summer semester classes begin on 9-22-2010 through 10-27-2010 Wednesdays, 7:30 to 9:30 pm --TUCC, 15th and Market Sts., Philadelphia.

To view the TUCC catalog and register for the class, click here

or call 215-204-6946

Discovering Your Deepest Sources:

Re-inventing and Writing Your Life Stories

Taught by Janet Mason
Award-winning writer


Fee: $145

In this creative writing course, you will discover a multi-media approach for finding your own sources and deep currents. You will keep a journal where you will write from photographs, create sketches (artistic talent not required) based on writing exercises, take risks and make major leaps in your self-understanding and your writing. The course covers, but is not limited to, the retrieval and writing of family stories. Learn how music can be a spur to memory and the retrieval and creation of the stories you need to write. We will do writing exercises to create short pieces that can stand alone and be prepared for publishing. The class also includes the line-by-line review of prepared student work led by the instructor. Guidance will be given on stringing together shorter pieces for the creation of longer pieces, including short story and essay collections and novels. Ultimately, your writing will transcend genre resulting in a voice,a style and a story that is uniquely yours.

This month's featured writer previously studied with Janet Mason.
To read her work, click here.