Easygoing, but useful, writing workshop.
I hope you’ll consider taking this easygoing, but useful, writing workshop. It’s a good deal for members of the West Side YMCA. Thanks. –Thad Rutkowski, www.thaddeusrutkowski.com ?Generating Fiction? will begin Monday evening, Sept. 13, 2010, at The Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA, 5 West 63rd Street. The class will include brief exercises and [...]
Just a reminder that two one day writing workshops are coming up this week.
Greetings! Just a reminder that two one day writing workshops are coming up this week. Summer slipping away and you haven’t gotten much writing done? Read on, if your writing needs more verve or you need more nerve! Tues. July 13 One Night Only /6:30 to 9:30pm $95 ?BANG UP YOUR STRUCTURE SKILLS? Character is [...]
Three Women: 3 Memoirs that find humor in the unimaginable, and meaning in chaos
What I Thought I Knew, by Alice Eve Cohen Winner of the Elle Magazine Grand Prix for Nonfiction. ?Everything we love in a book?profound, honest, hilarious, humane, surprising.? ?Anne Lamott, Salon.com Best Books of 2009 Perfection, by Julie Metz ?It is impossible to put Perfection down as we follow Julie Metz through her true story [...]
Fire Up Your Writing As The Heat Rises: Bang the Keys Summer Writing Seminars!
Greetings! The unofficial summer season has begun and it?s time to enjoy some outdoor play, a sweet vacay and the overall decadent vibe in the air. To writers, however, I must say this: Have fun and block out the sun, but not your commitment to your projects. Lather up with sunscreen, but don?t forget your [...]
Sixth Annual Pen World Voices Festival of International Literature
150 writers, 40 countries, and more than 50 events An Around the World Reading Grab your passport and come on a trip around the world with Festival airlines. We?ll make numerous stops in Europe, then head to Australia, Quebec, and South Africa before we land back in the U.S. Please fasten your seat belts, sit [...]
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Workshop: Two Saturdays: May 1 & 8?? 1:30 ? 4:30 pm Fee: $50 per workshop or $80 for both Workshop Instructor: Kathryn Adisman (?K?) Workshop Description: We will use the Feldenkrais Method? to mobilize for creativity. Moving from an Awareness Through Movement? lesson to drawing to writing exercises ? and back to the floor ? [...]
From Jill Dearman:
Bang the Keys Writing Wkshps Start 3rd Week in January – Sign Up Now, Procrastinate No More! Is one of your New Year?s resolutions to get some writing done?If you would rather be writing or revising than “researching” or complaining, if flexing your imaginative muscles and developing better meditation methods sound more enticing than downloading [...]
From Thad Rutkowski:
?Generating Fiction? will begin on Monday evening, Jan. 11, 2010, at The Writer’s Voice of the West Side YMCA, 5 West 63rd Street. The class will include brief exercises and detailed, constructive criticism of works-in-progress. Stories, novel chapters, creative nonfiction and experimental approaches are welcome. Open to everyone. Ten meetings. Registration begins Dec. 21 for [...]
Screw Iowa
On November 6th, a group of writers aka Screw Iowa! came to The Writers Room to give a free talk. You can learn more about them by visiting?www.screwiowa.com and by reading below: From Screw Iowa! The myth of the solitary writer writing alone in his garret is blasted to bits in the modern world, where [...]
