Memoir Writing Marathon
WriterHouse 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, United StatesThis is a closed event facilitated by Rowena Zimmermann.
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Writing, Revising, Pitching: Getting Your Novel Out of the Drawer and Off to Market (Ongoing class)
WriterHouse 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, United StatesInstructor: Randall Klein$1349* Members | $1349* NonmembersSelect Wednesdays 4/28/21 – 1/12/22 | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM*Payment plans of $322 per quarter will be available to students accepted into this program. NOTE: This class will meet via Zoom. Overview: For most novelists, the ultimate goal is to get published. Before that, however, comes much revision, […]
Memoir in a Year Part II: Finish and Revise the Draft of Your Book (Ongoing class)
Instructor: Sharon Harrigan $1,399* Members | $1,399* Nonmembers Select Thursdays, 3/4/2021 - 2/17/2022** | 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM *Payment plans will be available for students accepted to this program. **For a complete list of dates, please see the 2021 Memoir in a Year Part II Syllabus This class is a follow-on to the 2020 […]
Truth Be Told: Learning How to Write True Stories That Are Well Told (Online class)
WriterHouse 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, United StatesInstructor: Debby Prum $150 Members | $165 Nonmembers Thursdays, 1/20/22 – 2/24/22 | 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Class is capped at 7 students. Marion Roach says, "the personal essay is a manageable, distinctive delivery system for thoughts that are in one’s head or heart and get put down on the page. It is a […]
Writing the Body (Online class)
WriterHouse 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, United StatesInstructor: Laura Kolbe $60 Members | $65 Nonmembers First Session: Sunday, 2/20/22 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Second Session: Sunday, 2/27/22 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm The human body is perhaps the most abundant source of metaphor and wonderment in poetry. How can we harness this abundance and variety of possibility that the […]
Evening Poetry (Online class)
WriterHouse 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, United StatesInstructor: John Most $189 Members | $210 Nonmembers Tuesdays, 1/18/22 – 3/8/22 | 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm In this class, which is open to all poets, we will spend most of our time writing and workshopping new poems. In addition to writing new poems, each week we will look at what different poets do […]
Tell Your Story (Online class)
WriterHouse 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, United StatesInstructor: Deborah Harris $150 Members | $165 Nonmembers Fridays, 1/21/22 – 3/11/22 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Do you have a story inside, waiting to be told? Come to this workshop and get it out into the world. Share your work with supportive fellow writers. Discuss the fundamentals of writing —narrative, structure, point-of-view, voice […]
Chopped (Online class)
WriterHouse 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, United StatesInstructor: Jody Hobbs Hesler $150 Members | $165 Nonmembers Wednesdays, 2/9/22 – 3/30/22 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Inspired by the TV cooking game show Chopped, this generative writing class will present students with a new "basket" of four "ingredients" each week. "Ingredients" will be drawn from these categories: situations, objects or places, restrictions […]
Writing Family Narratives Using Research (in-person class)
WriterHouse 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, United StatesInstructor: Brendan Wolfe $150 Members | $165 Nonmembers Mondays, 3/27/23 – 5/1/23 | 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm In this two-part class we will explore the best practices of traditional genealogical research and then integrate our research into nonfiction writing that even people outside of our families will want to read. Part 1 will focus […]
Narrative Arc in Novels (Online class)
WriterHouse 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville, United StatesInstructor: Kristie Smeltzer $189 Members | $210 Nonmembers Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2/15/22 – 4/7/22 | 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm Have you ever been working on your novel and found yourself wondering: what would happen next? As writers sometimes the more important question is why—why should that happen next? This class will look at narrative […]