Inside the Writer’s Studio with Desiree Cooper and Jenny Gardiner For May’s IWS event, we’ll tackle writing and parenthood. WriterHouse’s Inside the Writer’s Studio is not a reading—it’s a brunch-time brain massage for writers. Join us for a fun and engaging discussion by writers for writers about any and all aspects of writing. Our April […]
Instructor: Rebecca Taylor Cost: $60.00 Members | $65.00 Non-Members Saturday, April 30, 2016 | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM LIMITED TO 11 STUDENTS. We may write fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. We may call it “real” or imagined. Still—whether sometimes, often, or always—we create with the material of life. This half-day seminar will be an opportunity for writers […]
Instructor: Joan Mazza Cost: $50.00 Members | $60.00 Non-Members Sunday, April 24, 2016 | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM LIMITED TO 16 STUDENTS. Whether you write a blog, journal, poetry, fiction, or memoir, you can develop habits for writing every day and find the time to do so. In this seminar, we'll discuss strategies to stay in […]
Instructor: Andrew Martin Cost: $60.00 Members | $65.00 Non-Members Saturday, April 23, 2016 | 1:00 PM-5:00 PM LIMITED TO 11 STUDENTS. We want to write fiction, but we also want to write about ourselves. Is it possible to do both while being honest and entertaining? What does it mean to turn yourself into a fictional […]
Instructor: Jay Varner Cost: $60.00 Members | $65.00 Non-Members Saturday, April 16, 2016 | 9:30 AM-1:30 PM LIMITED TO 11 STUDENTS. The personal essay is the most malleable form of creative nonfiction. Dramatic, emotional, and inquisitive, the personal essay relies upon the writing skills of a storyteller and the critical thinking of a lawyer. Learn […]
Instructor: Matt Procino Cost: $60.00 Members | $65.00 Non-Members Saturday, April 09, 2016 | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM LIMITED TO 11 STUDENTS. Do you have a character who just doesn’t make sense? Or, is perhaps too recalcitrant, disrupting the flow of your writing? Send her or him to the shrink! Our characters are extremely complicated people. […]
Instructor: Douglas Nordfors Cost: $189.00 Members | $210.00 Non-Members 8 Wednesdays, March 30 -May 18, 2016 | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE This class will be a “user-friendly” workshop for beginning or experienced poets. Through the examples of their own work, participants will discuss two classic approaches: poems in which style, content, and form (free […]
Instructor: Anne Marie Pace and Hannah Barnaby COST: $189.00 MEMBERS | $210.00 NON-MEMBERS 8 WEDNESDAYS, MARCH 30 -MAY 18, 2016 | 10:30 AM-1:00 PM LIMITED TO 11 STUDENTS. Writing picture book texts -- whether or not you are also an illustrator -- requires us to think in pictures as well as words. In this course, […]
Instructor: BettyJoyce Nash Cost: $189.00 Members | $210.00 Non-Members 8 Mondays, March 28 -May 16, 2016 | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM LIMITED TO 11 STUDENTS. Great stories often bubble up from real life—conversations we overhear and scenes we witness—but it’s up to the writer’s imagination to invent the circumstances and characters that give rise to a […]
Instructor: Amanda Korman Cost: $189.00 Members | $210.00 Non-Members 8 Mondays, March 28 -May 16, 2016 | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM LIMITED TO 11 STUDENTS. We will explore how the craft of writing enables us to tell our stories, investigate the subjects that interest us, and capture, as Joan Didion says, "what it was to be […]