Each week we’ll begin with a writing prompt carefully chosen to spark your imagination, your memory, and your deeply felt emotions. We’ll be invited to share our stories with the group and we will hear compassionate, supportive, and constructive feedback from them. Along the way, workshop leader Christine Pakkala will offer suggestions to deepen and […]
FILLED – The Journey of Writing For Women – B705W20
Whether we are wrestling with the sacred or the profane, creative writing is always an adventure of the soul. Storylines, poetic images, characters, phrases – they waltz onto our pages as if from nowhere. Or, we think we are writing about something familiar, and then our writing takes a turn toward the unknown, it deepens, […]
FILLED – New – Advanced Book Writing MS – B807W20
As writers, we draw on many sources of inspiration, instruction, and guidance to bring our projects to fruition, but no organon is more important than our individual artistic intuition. In this three-hour, hybrid editorial-generative class, each writer will submit pages each week in advance of class, and the group will come to class having read […]
FILLED – Hanging In There With Your Novel or Memoir Manuscript MS – B301W20
In this master-level course, you will have the opportunity to share 20-25 page increments of your work via email three to four times during the course of the term, for a minimum total of 60-75 pages reviewed and discussed. You will receive in-depth critiques during class time that you can then apply to your manuscript […]
FILLED – Writing from Imagination and Memory – An AWA Workshop – B103W20
This is a generative-only workshop based on the Amherst Artists & Writers method. Each week, we will write to evocative prompts – exercises. You may write in any genre. You’ll read your work aloud when you feel comfortable, then respond to each other’s work as mindful listeners, leaving all negative criticism behind. What was strong […]