This informational session is designed to inspire and equip you to teach your next Carnegie Center course! Whether you've never taught before, or you are a seasoned Carnegie instructor this session will have all the relevant info to get you started and enhance your classroom experience. In addition, the Programming ...
Learn how to write and submit op-eds and guest essays for publication. The course will cover all stages of the process and focus on what editors look for in freelance submissions. Students will write an op-ed or essay and receive guidance on how to improve it. The goal is to ...
Led by Mitch Smith, an award-winning screenwriter and film producer, this group is a wonderful way to meet other screenwriters and film professionals from around the state, and get your work in front of a supportive, knowledgeable team of writers. The group is open to screenwriters of all levels, as ...
Designed for writers of any/all levels of experience, this class will combine in-class writing exercises with peer feedback and deep reading to explore the nuts-and-bolts elements of the fiction writing craft. Sarah Combs is the author of YA novels, Breakfast Served Anytime and The Light Fantastic, published by Candlewick Press ...
Of all the genres, horror is the only one that is also an emotion—you can feel horror. It is a genre that creeps-out, grosses-out, and psyches-out, but true lovers will keep coming back for more. Whether you’re writing in the vein of Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Stephen ...
If you’re interested in writing and have reached that golden age, this is the group for you! Participants can expect cross-genre writing prompts; feedback for family stories, memoirs, poems, and fiction; tips for reading and publishing your work; and lively conversation and fellowship. Led by Sarah Combs, author of the ...
This class will cover how to determine whether or not self-publishing is the right route for you, what the best route to take is when self-publishing your book, what the steps are in self-publishing your book and how to work through the process of laying out and designing the book ...
This workshop class is designed to motivate and inspire writers of kids’ books by exploring plot and craft techniques through discussion, peer-sharing, and writing exercises. Come with a work-in-progress–or at least an idea for one. Enrolled students also receive an invitation to join Marcia in additional kids’ book writing opportunities ...
Join us at the community table in the light-filled reference room where we’ll be inspired to write from rotating prompts. We’ll do a few short-timed writing sessions designed to help you get your pen moving while shutting down your inner critic. After each timed session, writers will read their new ...
This class will be a mix of weekly workshop and poetry generation exercises, with the goal of learning techniques for revision and expanding on poetic ideas for larger poetry projects. This is a class dedicated to critique and communication, so come to class ready to entertain and offer suggestions. Each ...
This class will combine lectures, readings, and critical discussions of student work. While focusing on the short form, novel extracts will also be considered. Each week, students will read a provided contemporary speculative fiction piece for discussion. There will be brief guided writing sessions during class time. A round robin ...
This class invites writers of fiction and nonfiction to lift the curtain between the past and the page to ask, “who’s there?” We’ll discuss different techniques for using archival documents, photos, records, songs, buildings, ephemera, and even memory as a way to discover new pathways for your writing. This class ...
This writing experience offers attendees the opportunity to engage in a creative and communicative loop without judgment. We write from a variety of prompts designed to release the inner censor and simply get words on a page. After each timed session, writers read aloud their new work to participating attendees ...
Ghosts reflect to us both the uncanny and the all too familiar. Their terrifying power can be used to hurt or to heal in narrative. Join horror author Elizabeth Kilcoyne in exploring the spirit realm through writing, and visit it with MK Paranormal on October 11! Elizabeth Kilcoyne is a ...
Subtext, the true meaning simmering underneath the surface, adds depth and layers of meaning to our scenes. Often what’s missing in the text is the most important part—the motives, thoughts, emotions, and human truths that resonate with multiple meanings. Using examples from multiple popular works of fiction, we’ll look at ...
A poetry workshop for all levels with emphasis placed on the foundational craft elements of poetry—image, metaphor, line, speaker, tone. Come write and discuss poems in a welcoming, low-pressure environment, while learning about and/or reacquainting yourself with poetic craft. Quinn Lewis is a writer, educator, and editor, whose work has ...
Whether you're brainstorming new ideas, getting to know your characters, trying to conjure a scene, or revising, these meditations will help you build a richer, deeper connection to your characters and your stories. No meditation experience necessary! Each class will include two meditations followed by free writing time and an ...
GRADES 9–12: This course is designed to encourage students to improve their skills in both writing and performing poetry. Students will discuss what makes award-winning poetry and will be given opportunities to improve their work and public speaking voice. *The Youth Poet Laureate program for Lexington, KY is a partnership with ...
A distinctive trait of much memorable writing is its (and its author’s) “sense of place.” But any “place” is much more than just its geographical location—it is also defined by history and culture, ecology and economics, sociology and ethnography, all of which may have intensely personal, as well as familial ...
ADULTS, AGES 15 & UP: Your stories (or poems) need you–the only you that you can be, exactly as you are right now. After “somebody almost walked off wid all [her] stuff,” Juanita from Ntozake Shange’s choreopoem for colored girls… snatches that stuff back, reclaiming her “arm with the hot iron scar,” “calloused feet,” ...
With a combination of instruction and take-home assignments, this no-nonsense weekly class will give writers what they need to get started and go write their novel. Learn prewriting strategies, what you need to know about scene writing, character development, effective dialogue, plotting and more. If you plan to Zoom in ...
ONLINE: Spirit Writing found me at a time in my life where I was looking for ritual in my creative life. While doing some academic research on Lucille Clifton, I came across information regarding her practice of "spirit writing." It is called by other names: automatic writing, or somatic writing, but ...
A character comes to life on the page through well-crafted sensory detail. In this prompt-driven workshop, we will explore how writing about sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell add dimension to your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. This workshop is open to writers of all levels, in all genres. Participants will ...
Mary Oliver describes reading a poem as "someone stepping into a row boat with a stranger at the oars; the first few draws on the long oars through the deep water will tell a lot--is one safe, or is one apt to be soon drowned?" This class will explore line ...
This seven-week series is recommended for writers with works of nonfiction in progress or ideas for true stories they want to tell. We will spend most of our time discussing and offering feedback on class members' creative nonfiction pieces, while also studying contemporary published nonfiction and gleaning what we can ...
In this class, we'll explore how to research for information about your ancestors, using many online resources, as well as more practical, boots-on-the-ground research. We'll look at some examples of published writing, and work towards developing a voice that can tell your ancestors' stories. Sean Patrick Hill is a poet, ...
Learn writing techniques, hone your craft, and get words on the page for your work-in-progress by joining this lively discussion group focusing on a writing craft book. Classes include discussion of book content, prompts for implementing the book’s techniques, and peer sharing/feedback. Participants will need to buy a copy of ...
Once you have self-published your book, you'll need to sell it. This class will tell you how to place your book in book stores, determine your audience and hone your brand to help you sell your book. This hands-on session will help you develop an elevator pitch, learn how to ...
