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Getting Your Book Published —
All Your Questions Answered

with Allison Dickens

Landing a publishing deal for your book can be intimidating. In this participant-driven workshop we’ll demystify getting published. If you are unsure whether you’re ready to submit or what to do now that you’ve finished your manuscript, join us to discuss possible next steps. In a question-and-answer format dictated by participants, topics may include but […]

New… Writing Family

with Amanda Parrish Morgan

Writing in the literary journal Triquartelry, Laurie Hertzel explains that “[w]riting honestly about loved ones — specifically, writing about family — is one of the trickiest aspects of memoir writing, perhaps trickier even than recalling events accurately or finding the arc of our own story.” So much of the writing nonfiction writers do is, to […]

FILLED — Advanced Book Writing & Editing – Manuscript Course

with Julie Sarkissian

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 […]

Returning… Everyday Inspirations: Prompts Guaranteed to Get Your Pen Moving

with Allison Dickens

Inspiration is all around us but can be easily overlooked. Each week we will use prompts drawn from everyday experiences to ignite our imaginations in this fun workshop designed to both inspire and polish your writing. Realistic dialogue, creating dynamic characters and balancing description with action are a few of the craft elements we’ll explore. […]

FILLED — Finding Your Story

with Joanna Simmons

Do you have pages of writing, but you’re not sure what story you are telling, or want to tell? Are you drowning in ideas, but lacking focus? This class will crystalize your story and jump-start your writing. The first class will be a group-discussion in which each student can share about their ideas, their process, […]

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