Summer Creative Writing Workshop Series

Spend one or several evening learning and practicing different elements of the creative writing craft.

Pick and choose which evenings you'd like to attend this summer to work on fiction, poetry, or memoir. Each night we meet, we'll focus on a different creative writing topic as listed below. During the evening, we will discuss that particular element and we will give you creative writing exercises to complete in class to practice the element we are working on that evening.

Meetings:

Week 1 - Developing Your Voice
Spend an evening learning and discovering your voice through practical writing exercises.

Week 2 - Setting
Spend an evening learning how to write setting through practical writing exercises.

Week 3 - Character Development
Spend an evening learning character development techniques though practical writing exercises.

Week 4 - Writing Dialogue
Spend an evening exploring dialogue techniques through practical writing exercises.

Week 5 - Creating Conflict
Spend an evening learning techniques to create conflict through practical writing exercises.

Week 6 - Narrators
Spend an evening experimenting with different narrators through practical writing exercises.

Week 7 - Improving Prose
Spend an evening learning how to improve your prose through practical writing exercises.

Week 8 - Writing Subtext
Spend an evening learning how to incorporate subtext into your scenes through practical writing exercises.

Week 9 - Free Verse Poetry
Spend an evening creating new free verse poetry through practical writing exercises.

Week 10 - Memoir
Spend an evening uncovering memories to jump-start your memoir writing.

Creative writers of all genres welcome. This workshop is not appropriate for kids.