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Are you writing about historical events or people in your fiction, creative non-fiction, or poetry? Explore how to write with integrity and joy about the past.
We’ll explore a wide-ranging survey of styles at use in contemporary fiction, paying special attention to sentence construction, syntactical possibilities, and acoustic effects.
In this P.J. Seminar, we’ll talk about struggles and strategies that feel true to this moment of isolation, survival, eagerness, guardedness, grief, and next steps.
This workshop seeks to give each participant the tools create their own individual framework for approaching the realms of the political, as a part of an overall richer process for writing the fiction of your dreams.
In this class, we’ll walk through some practical strategies specific to the beginnings, middles, and endings of novels.
How can you meaningfully develop a nuanced character who experiences both pain and pleasure?
In this one-time workshop, attendees will identify negative self-talk messages that are stopping them from moving forward (and learn how to combat/rise above them).
At some point in a novel project, whether at the start or 100 pages in, it can be helpful to step back, consider what we have, and give it a foundational dramatic shape that either directs or illuminates all the promise in the material.
Explore your writer self as an artist, taking time to discover the basic elements of fiction and nonfiction craft and holding space to better understand who we are as inspired, dedicated creatives called to the literary arts.
Pacing. It’s the invisible thread that holds a story together, and it can make the difference between a book you can’t put down and one that loses your interest.
In this course, award-winning novelist Eric Charles May will discuss and present strategies and examples, from an array of genres, for getting effective imagery—from the concise to the elaborate—on the page to engage and enchant your readers.
This short class will be in introduction to Freewriting, and how to use writing as a daily tool for self-care. We’ll have prompts, writing resources, and timed writing exercises.
