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Beginning and
experienced writers
will hone their craft
at the annual
Cranbrook Retreat
for Writers.

wo Jewish authors
— one who special-
izes in adult fiction
and another who
specializes in children's books
— will help aspiring authors
attending the Cranbrook
Retreat for Writers.
Lucy Rosenthal, who
wrote The Ticket Out and
edited Great American Love
Stories and Work/ Ti-easing/ of
Love Stories, will conduct a
"Fiction Workshop." Elaine
Greenstein, who wrote Emily and the
Crows and Mrs. Rose Garden, will lead
"Writing Books for Children."
Both tailor their five-day programs,
running July 14-18, to participants.
The retreat, developed by
Cranbrook Schools, has additional ses-
sions July 9-13 that will cover poetry,
autobiographies, screenplays and per-
sonal essays. Among the other instruc-
tors are poet Richard Tillinghast and
screenwriter Bill Phillips.
The workshops are conducted
3:30-6:30 p.m. Morning and early
afternoons are spent writing and
preparing for the workshops. In the
evenings, faculty members read from
their works during sessions that are
free and open to the public.
"I'm very hands on," says
Rosenthal, a judge for the Book-of-
the-Month Club's editorial board and
a member of the fiction writing facul-
ty at Sarah Lawrence College. "This is
about process, and everybody gets to
participate. We help each writer make
the piece discussed what he or she
wants it to become."
Rosenthal asks everyone in her
workshop to read all the manuscripts
that will be introduced and then asks
authors to read portions of their pro-
jects to the others.
You can .catch things when work is
read out loud, get into its atmosphere
and see what's making it happen and
what it's trying to accomplish, " says
Rosenthal, who has worked for many
New York. publishers, screening new
books. "I'm used to looking at every
stage of a draft."
The novelist from New York guides

Elaine Greenstein: "I try
to give adults the confidence
to keep ivriting"

writers to use a detective approach to let
the work provide the clues for revisions.
a [A manuscript] can't.wear its party
clothes the first time out," she says.
The author has written for a variety
of publications, including the The
New York Times and Ms.. She received
her bachelor's degree from the
University of Michigan, a master's
degree from the Columbia School of
Journalism and a second master's
degree in playwriting from the Yale
School of Drama.
While working for one of many
publishers, she was an early reader of
A Separate Peace. She turned down
The Godfirther, she says, because she
has a blind spot about Mafia fiction.
Rosenthal's The Ticket Out is written
from a man's point of view and address-
es his search for identity. She currently