Workshop Schedule

Writing Funny: How To Get Readers Laughing In Between All Those Big Ideas
Does your work have a comic edge? Would you like it to? In this fun and educational workshop, you'll learn how to: draw on your verbal comic style; distinguish between the easy laugh, situational comedy, first-person humor and other comic literary styles; create a funny, relatable character; and make your humor work in service to your book's themes.

Artful Revision:
How to Create Poetic Prose
In this session, we will discuss the ways a writer can move his/her move into literature by examining the work of the masters.

Write Free Playshop: Attracting Publication
This workshop will help writers take playful, but powerful, steps toward publication through activities designed by the authors of Write Free: Attracting the Creative Life.

Perspectives in Self-Publication
and Independent Publishing
What's right for you? This interactive workshop will explore the options for self-publication as well as what it takes to start your own independent publishing company. Includes discussion, hands-on, and resources.

Writing That Novel:
How to Stay Sane And Enjoy the Ride
Are you determined to write a novel but find you keep getting bogged down midway? Have you written a draft but aren't sure what to do next? Join novelist and playwright Jody Gehrman for a playful hour filled with tips, ideas, and sanity-saving techniques.

 

 

 

Write What You Want to Know
For many writers of fiction, the old adage to “write what you know” is too confining.  This workshop will use lecture, discussion, and hands-on exercises to examine the braid of experience, imagination, and research that are the three sources of all fiction, and to help participants discover the stories they want to know.