Linda Bendorf

Linda M. Bendorf (M.A.T., J.D., The University of Iowa) is an award-winning instructor and writing coach who has inspired both novice and seasoned writers in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival for more than two decades. Linda’s essays, features, and poetry have appeared in the Chicago Tribune Media Group’s Triblocal, The University of Iowa’s The Daily Palette, USA Today, Gannett News Service Wire, Des Moines Register, Instructor, The Iowan, and Gather Magazine. Linda is also director of Blue Sage Writing (www.bluesagewriting.com), which offers workshops, one-on-one coaching, and private writing retreats. In 2018, Linda and artist/author E.M. Sloan will lead a weeklong workshop (“Your Legacy as Memoir...The Essence of a Life”) in Boulder, Colorado. Linda and her husband, Carl, live on Colorado’s Front Range where they hike, bird, bike and marvel at the ever-changing sunsets over the Rockies.

Instructor Events

Transforming Moments of Consequence into Captivating Scenes in Fiction & Nonfiction

Weekend July 14 to July 15 2018

In his book, Making Shapely Fiction, author Jerome Stern advises: “Remember the wisdom of the child: make a scene when we really want everyone’s full attention … Create an event so your readers can feel the drama of the moment.” Smith Magazine defined “The Moment” as the key experience, “a moment of opportunity, serendipity, calamity or chaos”—whose effect was revelatory, profound and life-changing.