Atlas Writing Seminar - Fiction I

Atlas, a full service international corporate communications consultancy, today announced it will host its first full-day writing seminar, “Fiction I”, an intensive boot camp for fiction writers, on 21 May 2016 at the Pacific Café in Old Nicosia at 9:00 AM. One of the founders of collaborative creative writing Site urnovl.com will introduce the application to seminar participants.

Fiction I has been designed and organized to help fiction writers in Cyprus writing in English hone their craft. Following a discussion of selected stories and essays available on the Atlas website, each participant will have his or her story or novel excerpt work-shopped under the supervision of Atlas principal David A. Porter, a professional editor and a former instructor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA.

urnovl.co is an innovative online library for solo and collective writing, where "novlists" can create and publish their own "novls". Anastasios Tsipidis, one of the founders of urnovl.co, will introduce participants to the site and its many benefits for writers.

“Our mission is to help writers kick-start a story or novel or make progress on work they’ve already begun, to make each participant a better editor and a more careful reader, to introduce participants to outstanding postwar American fiction that will inspire and instruct them and, finally, to give everyone a full, collegial, intense full-day writing ‘boot camp’ with a group of like-minded writers who share each other’s literary objectives and passion,” said Porter. “And there will be coffee and urnovl.co!”

Tickets are available via the Fiction I Eventbrite page until 9 May 2016, €10 discount for students. Further information about Fiction I and about Atlas, including the seminar schedule and testimonials, is available on the company’s website.

About David A. Porter
David A. Porter graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with a B.A. in English Literature. He then attended San Francisco State University, where he earned a Master’s in English Literature (with a Creative Writing Concentration) and an MFA in Creative Writing. Porter was a co-founder and the managing editor of 20 Pounds of Headlights, a literary annual. He has published fiction in The Santa Clara Review and The Surfer’s Journal and poetry in Cold Mountain Review, Ghost Ocean, Hotel Amerika, Nimrod, Sojourn, Spoon River Poetry Review and you are here. He is working on his first collection of short stories, Protracted Adolescence, and a non-fiction book about music, 20,000 Things I Love.

About Atlas
Atlas is a full service international corporate communications consultancy: the company’s expertise encompasses public relations and marketing communications of the highest quality built on a foundation of peerless written content. Atlas believes a bespoke, diligently-pursued, long-term creative communications strategy is a map to measurable business growth and brand differentiation. Even in an age dominated by the Internet, Atlas still believes in producing written work of the highest quality, regardless of how widely and how quickly it is disseminated. The company helps its clients convey their messages with elegance, precision and strength and brings these messages to as large and relevant an audience as possible and with respect for that audience’s sophistication. For more information, including work samples and bios, please visit www.atlasiscommunications.com.