Monte Schulz

Voice & Style

Finding voice and style in your work

Monday - Friday
The Admiral will be on hiatus this year
Studio

This is a workshop about finding the right voice or style to fit your story or novel or poem. Writers are most known for how they tell a story, rather than the tale itself. Style is how we as writers present ourselves to the world.

Message to Students

All I ask of my students is that they try to write the best they can. There’s no reward in striving to be mediocre, no matter what genre you choose. If it’s your first time attending the conference, find a workshop environment that feels helpful and comfortable. Don’t worry about doing everything. Mingle as best you can, though, and remember that a conference is a society of people like yourself who are in love with the written word.

Bio

Monte Schulz published his first novel, Down By The River, in 1990, and spent the next two decades writing Crossing Eden, an epic novel of the Jazz Age. He has taught writing and literature in the College of Creative Studies at UCSB, where he earned his M.A. in American Studies. Metropolis, his latest novel is not only a dystopian narrative of love in a time of war and moral disintegration but also a meditation on the meaning of virtue and goodness in the face of the most monstrous crimes. He lives in Santa Barbara and Hawaii. His musical projects include “Seraphonium,” an album and live performance, for which he served as composer, songwriter, and producer. Schulz has been teaching at SBWC since 2001 and became the conference’s owner in 2010.

Writing Tip I Live By

There is no such thing as writer’s block.Try to write a page a day. If that doesn’t work, do half a page. Anything is better than nothing.

Recommended Authors

H.G.Wells, Ray Bradbury, Carl Sandburg,Thomas Wolfe,Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, James Jones, Allen Ginsburg, Joan Didion, Larry Brown and Cormac McCarthy. Schulz’s favorite novel is Carson McCullers’ The Member Of The Wedding.