This summer I attended a creative non-fiction workshop as a student at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. I just received a copy of this note from one of my classmates, and I’m reproducing it here with her permission. I attended the Short Narrative Essay weekend workshop in June.  It was an enjoyable and useful workshop,...
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I’m psyched to say that tonight’s workshop is full. I look forward to working with 10 authors – topic: a complication of “showing vs. telling” and workshopping draft manuscripts. See you tonight.
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010 Heine Brothers Coffee, Chenoweth Lane, “Green Room” Meeting, Class & Workshop I am working on:: NovelShort StoryJournalismNon-fictionPoetryTechnical WritingPlay/ScreenplayDramaOther Try a workshop for 10% off. Enter coupon code “FIRSTWWP” when checking out. Workshop Details: WWP workshop 9/7/2010 Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 6:00 – 9:30 (ish)...
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Even though each meeting follows a familiar, effective format of meet ‘n eat, craft discussion, and professional workshop, with up to 10 lively authors in a room (plus me), each meeting will have its own tone and theme. For example, tonight’s meeting dispensed with a craft lecture in favor of a discussion of writing questions...
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New! Create in style with a WWP logo notebook WWP logo notebook I always wanted to create some writer’s merchandise – I know you’ll enjoy these. Sturdy 5×7 quality notebook – great size for writing  hard cover, hard back Black cover and back with shiny silver WWP logo Black ballpoint pen in pen holder included! 100 pages, ruled Spiral bound – opens flat Take...
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The Writers Workshop Project is holding a one-day writers retreat Saturday May 22, 2010 at the Horine Conference Center in Jefferson Memorial Forest. This beautiful location and excellent facility close to Louisville will help inspire, and will be part of some of the workshops. Enjoy 3...
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Thought I’d share a draft from one of the creativity exercises for tonight. This one was “Associative Poetry” – after reading Charles Simic “In the Library” to the group, I joined them in writing a poem that began with an ordinary occurrence and ended with something surprising. I guess I had the idea of...
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If you look at the masthead of the-wwp.com, you’ll now find a logo, thanks to Heather Jacobs, a WWP regular. I couldn’t have done it alone. I’m no graphic designer. That was clear when I passed out a sheet of draft logos to workshop attendees one month and asked them what they thought, honestly....
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Everything you need to know about why I created the WWP.
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What to bring to the workshop and how to prepare your drafts.
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