by Valerie Williams | 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 Valerie Williams | 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 Valerie Williams | 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 Valerie Williams | 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 Valerie Williams | 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 Valerie Williams | 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 Valerie Williams | 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 Valerie Williams | 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 Valerie Williams | 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 Valerie Williams | 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...
