Classes & Workshops: Nonfiction

• Train Your Brain: Increase Creativity & Productivity to Beat the Block

  Instructor: Nathan Day Wilson
  Date: Wednesday, June 26
  Time: 6:30 – 9 p.m.
  Location: IWC
  Cost: $63 Nonmembers, $40 members, $35 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
  
  Of course not you, but maybe you have a friend who experiences times when they can’t fit two words together. Something holds them back, something resists, something makes it difficult for those fabulous ideas in the head to become actual words... learn more

• Writing the Spiritual Memoir

  Instructor:  Thomas Larson
  Date: Saturday, June 29
  Time: 10 a.m-4 p.m. (includes break for lunch – Sack lunch preferred)
  Location: IWC
  Cost: $150 nonmembers, $96 members, $84 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
  
  Join visiting writer Thomas Larson, author of Spirituality and the Writer, for an all-day workshop on writing spiritually at the Indiana Writers Center. We begin by discussing, with examples, the differences between religious autobiography and spiritual memoir. Though these forms may... learn more

• Indiana Writers Center Writing Retreat

  Facilitator: Angela Jackson Brown
  Dates: Friday, July 12 – Sunday July 14|
  Time: Check-in 1 p.m. on Friday, 7/12. Check-out in the afternoon on Sunday, 7/14. All meals are included.
  Location: Oakwood Retreat Center, 3801 S 575 E Rd, Selma, IN 47383 (www.discoveroakwood.org/)
  Cost:
  Member price - $400 Cost includes single room, one meal on Friday night, three meals on Saturday, and breakfast and lunch on Sunday.*

  Nonmember price - $500... learn more

• Bearing Witness: Raising Awareness and Promoting Justice Through Nonfiction

  Instructor: David Griffith
  Date: Sunday, August 4
  Time:  1–4 p.m.
  Location: IWC
  Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
  
  Join essayist Dave Griffith author of A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America, for a masterclass on how writing about the issues and injustices right outside our front door can promote justice and disrupt cycles of violence and neglect.

  Participants will reflect on excerpts... learn more

• Memoir Writing with a Purpose

  Instructor: Jeff Rasley
  Date: Saturday, August 10
  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 
  
  Many writers keep a journal or write about their own experiences.  Most of this writing is not shared or published (except on Facebook). Many of us can turn our own experiences into a lesson for others—a didactic memoir. Short features for on-line publications, corporate... learn more