Getting Started and Keeping On: Generative Writing for Where You’re At with Kathryn Kruse
Come for an evening of discovery and leave with new words on the page.
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Traditional Publishing: An Overview with Anitra Budd
In this seminar, editor and educator Anitra Budd will give a whirlwind tour of traditional publishing.
What is it? A Play, a Movie, a TV Show? with Mary Ruth Clarke
Learn how to turn your story into something on the screen – and learn the difference between the different formats!
The Vision and The Line: Ekphrastic Poetry with Tara Betts
Tara Betts will lead participants on a journey that explores the dimensions and depths of writing about an artist’s work. You will explore poetry as well as essays and lyrical prose.
Reading Like a Writer with Jennifer Solheim
From grammar and syntax to sense and clarity, voice, mood, and tone to character and metaphor—as well as narrative strategies—it can be helpful to understand how to analyze a literary text for these elements to use in turn in your own writing.
Creating Your Own World with Susanna Calkins
Writers will explore key aspects of world-building and scene-setting, reflecting on how sensory details, language, dialogue and history (real or imagined) help authors create their own unique worlds.
PJ Seminar: A Master Class on Writing Through the Apocalypse with Heidi Pitlor
Learn to better focus and even integrate current events into your fiction during difficult times.
Setting the Pace with Ellen Blum Barish
When we say that an essay or memoir dragged a bit in the middle, or actually made us stop reading, we are often talking about pacing.
Writing Sex with Sarah Terez Rosenblum
Pssst—your characters have sex. In this one-night workshop on writing sex, you will get tips for creating well-paced sex scenes; making efficient language choices; and techniques for shedding writing inhibitions.