by Lisa Ellison | Sep 19, 2017 | Member Blog |
Risky Research by BettyJoyce Nash Writers naturally attract “the fictional opportunity.” Three weeks ago, as I sail through security at CHO en route to my Montana vacation, this truth presents itself more directly than usual. I’m a Trusted Traveler, so OK, I swagger...
by Lisa Ellison | Sep 12, 2017 | Member Blog, News |
Community Write-In September 27, 2017 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, Central Branch McIntire Room Since August 12, 2017, our Charlottesville community has lived with uncertainty. Some people experienced that day as a wakeup call regarding...
by Lisa Ellison | Sep 12, 2017 | Member Blog, News |
Friday, October 20, 2017 @ 6:30 p.m. The Art Gallery at Indoor Biotechnologies, 700 Harris Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902 (across from WriterHouse) Tickets: $50 It’s time for Words and Wine, the signature annual fundraiser for WriterHouse, an organization...
by Lisa Ellison | Aug 7, 2017 | Member Blog, News |
by Instructor Phil Jason Flash Fiction is probably not new (certainly it was hard to write a novel when you were living in a cave, running from predators, and had a vocabulary of only two hundred words), but the advent of Internet publishing has brought more attention...
by Lisa Ellison | Jul 11, 2017 | Member Blog, News, Uncategorized |
WriterHouse and C-VILLE Weekly invite you to submit a piece of flash fiction to Charlottesville’s annual writing contest. The final judge will be author Bret Anthony Johnston, author of the best-selling novel Remember Me Like This and winner of the 2017 The Sunday...
by Lisa Ellison | Jun 6, 2017 | Member Blog, News |
The Downfalls of Writing About Love by Instructor Amanda Korman You’re probably already familiar with the downfalls of writing about love. Someone might read it. And then that person will think the narrator is you. And then that person will think you do/say/crave what...
by Lisa Ellison | May 18, 2017 | Member Blog, News |
by Debby Prum, Instructor Recently, I watched a terrible movie on the SyFy network: Ragin’ Cajun Redneck Gators. (Don’t judge me. I was having a low day.) A Cajun man dumps toxic moonshine into the local bayou, thereby creating mutant alligators that crave human...
by Lisa Ellison | Apr 18, 2017 | Uncategorized |
For the past nine years, your generous support has kept the lights on and the pens moving here at WriterHouse. Join us on May 16th, 2017 at 7:00 PM as we celebrate our past successes while also looking toward the future of our beloved writing community. Our birthday...
by Lisa Ellison | Apr 18, 2017 | Uncategorized |
Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye –Seamus Heaney A successful writer is not always an effective speaker. Often an assumption is made that all words are from the same planet. Words written are from a different species than words spoken. More...
by Lisa Ellison | Mar 2, 2017 | Uncategorized |
In her current life, Lisa Jakub is a writer, speaker, writing teacher, traveler, devoted yogi and wife. She also makes a really good spinach gnocchi. In a former life, she was a child actor who starred in blockbusters like Mrs. Doubtfire and Independence Day. Lisa...
by Lisa Ellison | Mar 2, 2017 | News, Uncategorized |
Creative Writing Camp for Kids Session I: Monday-Friday, July 10-July 14, 2017 | 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Session II: Monday-Friday, July 17 – July 21, 2017 | 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Session III: Monday-Friday, July 24 – July 28, 2017 | 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. SESSION ONE...
by Lisa Ellison | Feb 15, 2017 | News, Uncategorized |
Tony Vanderwarker was raised in New England, went to Phillips Andover and Yale, served in the Peace Corps and graduated from NYU with a B.S. in Cinema. Worked in the film business in New York and made a full-length feature film. Then he went into advertising in...
by Lisa Ellison | Jan 31, 2017 | Member Blog, News |
Annie Kim’s first poetry collection, Into the Cyclorama, won the 2015 Michael Waters Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Ninth Letter, Mudlark, Asian American Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of Warren Wilson...
by Lisa Ellison | Jan 25, 2017 | Member Blog, News |
The 2017 Virginia Festival of the Book invites you to submit your writing to their first-ever fiction contest! Ten submissions will be selected by committee and reviewed by The Atlantic‘s longtime fiction editor, C. Michael Curtis. He will then invite a selection of...
by Lisa Ellison | Dec 15, 2016 | Member Blog, News |
“The Mushroom Hunter” was originally published in Glimmer Train Stories, Issue #89 (Dec 2013) It was the winner of the Glimmer Train Stories 2012 Fiction Open competition I remember I grabbed the table first. Then I stood up and hung onto the swaying wall....
by Lisa Ellison | Dec 1, 2016 | Member Blog, News, Uncategorized |
WriterHouse has just been given an incredible end-of-year fundraising opportunity. Through the generosity of several anonymous donors, we now have member matching funds for any donation received during the month of December, up to $20,000. While every donation under...
by Lisa Ellison | Nov 1, 2016 | Member Blog, News |
This is an excerpt from the short story The Bees Laugh, originally published in Prairie Schooner. The bees are transcending. They are leaving their bodies behind in green grassy fields behind my house. Everyone thinks they’ve died, but in actuality, they’re part of...
by Lisa Ellison | Oct 7, 2016 | News |
Are you thinking of writing a memoir in 2017? Already finished a draft of your novel or memoir and looking to polish it? We are currently accepting applications for three MFA-level classes that may help you reach your goals. All three courses begin in January 2017 and...
by Lisa Ellison | Sep 14, 2016 | Member Blog |
The Natives Are Getting Restless (Excerpt from The Whalehead Project) A white, cinder-block building housed the post office and what used to be a general store. Both were once places to hang out, to share the news of the world. Now, with the growing tourist population...
by Lisa Ellison | Sep 14, 2016 | News |
Friday, October 21, 2016 @ 6:30 p.m. 700 Harris Street, Charlottesville, VA 22902 (across from WriterHouse) Tickets: $50 It’s time for Words and Wine, the signature annual fundraiser for WriterHouse, an organization whose mission is to promote the creation and...
