SERVING THE NEXT GENERATION
WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS
Teachers & Administrators, find out more about our WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS PROGRAMS and learn how to bring a professional creative writing workshop to your school or classroom. We’d love to talk with you about how we can best serve your students.
FICTION FANTASTIC
FICTION FANTASTIC YOUNG WRITERS CONTEST is an annual fiction contest for upper elementary, middle, and high school students in Lane County, Oregon. This contest is free to students attending public, private, and homeschool.
UPCOMING EVENTS
A reading and discussion group for writing instructors and enthusiasts.
Friday Night Writes: Virtual Edition! Friday night socializing for writers! Come hang out with other writers, get some work done on your current project (or start a new one!), and eat chocolate. What more could you ask for a Friday night? Fridays, 6-9 PM Pacific Wordcrafters Online Zoom Studio Members …
June 23 — Join us for the next Ask the Author with award-winning author Kim Johnson as she shares her journey to publication.
Dust off your manuscripts, bring your query letters, and get ready to send your work out into the world with our summer quarterly member event!
Take deep-diving dissection of blockbuster story beginnings with Tex Thompson in this two day workshop.
Join poet Erica Goss for another session of “Exploring Ekphrasis,” a class dedicated to writing poems inspired by visual art. Starts September 6.
YOUTH CLASSES & CAMPS
Join Rainbow Reads–a young adult LGBTQIA2S+ book group for Lane County teens hosted by Wordcrafters in Eugene in partnership with the Eugene Public Library! Meets the first and third Monday each month.
July 11-15, 2022 | Get read to create short stories set in your own scifi or fantasy work with Scifi & Fantasy camp!
Young writers, get ready to go on an exciting exploration with Adventures in Writing Summer Camp! July 18-22, 2022
Teens! If you love writing, novels or stories, theater, RPGs, or movies, and want to improve your character building skills, this camp is for you. Meets July 13- August 17.
LATEST ARTICLES & PODCASTS
“…require that characters deliver their news while climbing three flights of stairs, place a protagonist’s important interview in a too-noisy or sinister location that will put her off balance.”
“I had been neglecting to follow my story’s lead. I’d been so adamant about what I wanted my story to be that I’d ignored the signs of what it needed to be.”
“Try to resist the urge to prune a few bushes while the forest burns.”
“Whatever traits you want the reader to remember need to be magnified and exaggerated, even if only a little bit.”
