Writing Workshop for Teens (ages 13-19)
Join Julia Segre and Serena Griffin, the youth poets laureate of Berkeley for a teen writing workshop. No experience necessary. No particular style of writing will be the focus. Instead, teen participants will be offered a series of prompts…
Generative Writing in Community
Can a workshop space be engaging, generative, and inspiring all while cultivating a greater sense of community belonging? We think so! Join us to learn some practical tools for creating a generative writing space in your own community. No need…
Break Through: Finding the Unexpected in Your Own Writing
Great writing has aspects of revelation and surprise. Authors writing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry share tips on how they tap into the unconscious and use the unexpected to do their best work.
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How to Write a Haiku
Poems are very efficient vehicles of language. In order to function, all excessive words must be trimmed away.
Given that premise, is there any poetic tradition more efficient and evocative than the Japanese haiku form: 17 syllables in all,…
Writing Across Genres – Writing Workshop with SJSU
The MFA Program at San José State trains versatile writers. Every graduate develops expertise in at least two genres, choosing primary and secondary concentrations in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or scriptwriting. This workshop is…
That Was Then: Writing Historical Fiction
What makes something a historical novel instead of a history? How much research is too much research? In the absence of time travel, how does a writer recreate the past on the page?
In this one-hour workshop, 3 award-winning historical novelists,…
Writing workshop for Elementary Kids: Twisting A Tale
This workshop uses traditional folktales and fairy tales to stimulate the imagination as students write a creative piece that twists the well-known story into a completely new tale. Grades 4-5.
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Take Me Away! Writing About Places Near and Far
Led by a diverse cadre of award-winning writers from the MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts, this 60-minute workshop will teach you how to bring the places and times you write about to life. Whether you’re writing essays…
Creative Non-fiction: Harnessing the Wild Imagination
In this workshop, we will explore the wonderous world of non-fiction, specifically focusing on the "creative" side that can come from writing literary non-fiction. The goal of this workshop is to help you branch outside the restrictive conventions…