Instructor: Brent Bill
Date: Wednesday, December 11
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
Walk-in registrations are welcome!
Do you wish to write in a way that touches readers and yourself? That’s the kind of writing that readers find so appealing. Brent Bill’s own writing has been described by Publishers Weekly as being “Like a neighborly conversation across a kitchen table.”... learn more
Instructor: Tracy Line
Dates: Two Saturdays: January 11 and January 25
Time: 1–4 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $135 nonmembers, $86 members, $76 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
This discounted combo includes both:
Beginning Writers Boot Camp
Do you have the desire to write but don’t know where to begin? Have a half-written story on your laptop or an idea that hasn’t made it out of your head? Wanting to write and doing it... learn more
Instructor: Tracy Line
Date: Saturday, January 11
Time: 1–4 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
Do you have the desire to write but don’t know where to begin? Have a half-written story on your laptop or an idea that hasn’t made it out of your head? Wanting to write and doing it are two different things. Kick-start the right half of your brain with... learn more
Instructor: Jessica Reed
Date: Sunday, January 19
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
Sometimes allowing ourselves to play leads to material for our best work. This can mean temporarily setting aside a personal project to borrow and reconfigure another text and reinvigorate our own relationship with language. Your creative voice will emerge from even the most technical experiments. Collage,... learn more
Instructor: Tracy Line
Date: Saturday, January 25
Time: 1–4 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
In Beginning Writers Boot Camp you gained techniques for how to move forward on your writing. You've made progress, but there is more work to be done. So, what next? Participants in this class will learn how to maintain momentum, identify next steps for their project, and figure... learn more
Instructor: Michelle Niemann
Date: Sunday, January 26
Time: 2-5 PM
Location: IWC
Cost: $75 Nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
Does perfectionism slow your writing process down? Do you find yourself tweaking the same paragraph or section over and over—and then discovering that in fact you need to jettison it entirely? Do you have a draft of an essay, memoir, or novel... learn more
Instructor: Michelle Niemann
Date: 4 Sunday Sessions: Feb 16, 23; March 1, 8
Time: 2-5 PM
Location: Marian University Room TBD
Cost: $300 Nonmembers, $192 members, $168 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
We know how important it is to workshop drafts, but sometimes it's our writing process itself that needs revision. Writing is hard. It's messy and recursive, and there are no easy shortcuts. But by reflecting... learn more
Instructor: Jeff Rasley
Date: Saturday, February 22
Time: 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Location: IWC
Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
The class is appropriate for published and unpublished memoir writers. Whether you are writing to preserve your personal story for your family or you are writing to sophisticated literati, your memoir should have a theme and purpose beyond duplicating diary entries. The class will help... learn more
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