Classes & Workshops: Nonfiction

• Tips for Successful Screenwriting: Do’s & Don’ts

  Instructor: Danny Chan
  Date: Wednesday, May 1
  Time:  6:30-9:30 p.m.
  Location: IWC
  Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
  
  It’s been just you and the page all this time – but, now you’re ready to put your screenplay out into the world. How should you proceed? How and where do you start submitting?

  Danny Chan, CEO of Almost Never Films, shares his insights to help you prepare... learn more

• The Basics of Self Publishing

  Instructor: Robert Kent
  Date: Sunday, May 5
  Time: 1-4 p.m.
  Location: IWC
  Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
  

  Editor Peggy Tierney says she receives thousands of manuscripts per year, reads perhaps fifty, and publishes only one or two. With publishers consolidating and purchasing fewer books each year, advances shrinking, and legacy contracts becoming more restrictive than ever – and with... learn more

• Beginning Writers Boot Camp

  Instructor: Tracy Line
  Date:  Saturday, June 1
  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

• 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 Women’s 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 - $450 (Cost includes single room, one meal on Friday night, three meals on Saturday, and breakfast and lunch on Sunday.)

  Nonmember price - $550 (Cost... learn more