Fiction Workshops

Trouble Shooting Strategies for Novelists

Rosemont Writers’ Retreat at Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA

June 6 – 11, 2010

http://www.rosemont.edu/writers/

Bring your complete, in-progress, or long-abandoned novel to this weeklong workshop. We’ll tackle the mental blocks that keep us fixed instead of finished, and practice new strategies for planning, plotting, and pacing a novel-length work.

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Writing for Young Adults

Saturday, April 24, 2010

12:00 – 3:30 p.m. (includes lunch)

237 Cayman Court

Wilmington, DE  19808

Contact Barbara Gray (graybeg@comcast.net) for more details and to register.

Writing successfully for young adults requires us to (temporarily!) inhabit our teenage selves, in order to understand and communicate an adolescent sensibility in our work.  In this workshop for beginning or experienced writers, we’ll briefly explore the YA category — in terms of subject matter and style — before we plunge in and begin to create.  Through writing exercises, we’ll generate plot ideas, learn to structure a short story to convey immediacy, and experiment with style and tone.  Come ready to write and to share, with paper and pen or a laptop computer.

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Philadelphia Stories Writing Workshop

Wednesdays, April 7 – May 26, 2010

6:30 – 8:00 pm

Manayunk Art Center, 419 Green Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19128

For more information, please email christine@philadelphiastories.org

Sponsored by Philadelphia Stories, the area’s popular literary magazine.

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Getting Started

Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Club of Philadelphia (with Cynthia Reeves)

Sunday, September 27, 2009

3:00 – 5:00 pm

Ely Room, Wyndham Alumnae House, Bryn Mawr College

events@bmcphiladelphia.org

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Nonfiction Workshops

Write Your Life: a Workshop on the Narrative Essay

Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students

Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA

November 8, 2008

http://www.cmu.edu/cmites/

Pennsylvania Young Writers Day 2010-11

http://www.youngwritersday.net/index.html

• Chestnutwold Elementary School                    October 15, 2010
• St. Dorothy’s School                                                November 4, 2010
• Lynnewood Elementary School                         November 12, 2010
• Manoa Elementary School                                   November 24, 2010
• Coopertown Elementary School                      March 9, 2011
• East Bradford Elementary School                 April 8, 2011
• Chatham Park Elementary School                 April 15, 2011
• New Garden Elementary School                      April 29, 2011
• Westtown-Thornbury School                           May 11, 2011