Are you studying marketing or interested in the field? WriterHouse is looking for a Marketing Intern for this fall and possibly beyond. What's involved? - Creating content for Facebook and other social media marketing
- Writing press releases and handling other event publicity
- Helping write the annual report
- Creating content for our public website and the member website
- Helping with public events
- Compiling and creating class brochures and other print pieces
You'll get a lot of writing practice and learn about Joomla (our web content management system), social media, nonprofit management, Adobe InDesign, and more. Average about 8-10 hours per week, but can be flexible. Some in-person time required, but much of the work can be done from home. This is an upaid internship, but we're happy to help with any reporting needed for college credit.
Requirements: Excellent writing skills, including the ability to write clearly and persuasively as well as proficiency in writing mechanics (grammar, sentence structure, correct word usage); some familiarity with social media (Facebook, Twitter, e-newsletters).
Inquiries to:
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 Marie Potoczny's class "Writing Small: Little Stories with Big Impact--An Introduction to Flash Fiction
" will begin Wednesday, September 22.
When did you first feel like a writer?
Is it fair to say I've always felt like a writer? Even when I was a little kid
I hungered to write and give voice to my thoughts.
What's your philosophy about teaching a writing class?
I don't care a lot about grammar and spelling. I'm way more interested in the
writing process and students' ideas.
If you could meet any fictional character, who would it be and why?
I would really enjoy hanging out with Sherlock Holmes and going on a lot of
madcap adventures.
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 Douglas Nordfors' Poetry Workshop will begin Tuesday, September 21.
When did you first feel like a writer?
I'd like to say that it was when I was 5 or 6 years old, and I accompanied my
mother, who was a poet, to a radio station in Seattle, where she gave a poetry
reading. But I was far too engaged in the fact she was a writer to even begin to
think of myself as a future one, though I certainly did feel some sense of mental
connection with her even at that young age. I'm pretty sure it was much, much later,
when I was a freshman at Columbia University, and I would spend hours deep
underground in the stacks of Butler Library reading sample after sample from the big
contemporary American poetry section. It was so peaceful down there, and the slim
books seemed to be fully lit with significance in the half-dark. I just wanted to
try to belong to all that in some small way.
What's your philosophy about teaching a writing class?
As I suggest above, reading comes first, then writing, and so my philosophy is
that I try to apply my love for reading and (hopefully) acumen as a reader to any
work presented in a writing workshop. To me, love for reading means appreciating a
wide range of styles and material, and acumen as a reader means having some insight
into what a writer is sensitive to, and what he or she aims to accomplish. Putting
all that together, I would say that as a teacher of writing, I see myself as part of
a community of writers, rather than as a separate person who wishes to impose his
individual sense of things on others.
If you could meet any fictional character, who would it be and why?
I'd like to meet Mrs. Ramsay from Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse." The
reason is not so I could see and feel the actual person captured in unbelievably
rich language (which implies that the actual is superior to the literary), but so I
could somehow go through somewhat the same process Woolf did: see and feel the
actual character (who was based on her mother) before reading the novel again and
re-experiencing (in a new way, perhaps?) Mrs. Ramsay transformed into unbelievably
rich language. Well, I'm not sure all this makes much sense, but I'm almost certain
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WriterHouse's Fall 2010 Writing Class Session will begin September 20. Check out our exciting schedule of classes, including new classes in flash fiction, story-telling, and of course some old favorites. As always, members receive a 10% discount on their registration fees. |
On Sunday, October 24, 2010, Keswick Vineyards will host the first annual Words & Wine event, a fundraiser for WriterHouse. Admission includes wine tasting, complimentary wine glass, light hors d’oeuvres, and one raffle ticket. In addition, Keswick has generously agreed to donate 10% of all event-related wine
and merchandise sales to WriterHouse. Tickets may be purchased via Paypal. You may also mail a check to WriterHouse, PO Box 222, Charlottesville, VA 22902, or stop by during open hours to pay by cash or check.
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