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
Day Writing for Adults
Like Drinking, but with Words! To support you in these social distancing days, we’re offering an additional virtual write in! Just like Friday Night Writes, but in the daylight on Mondays (so not the same at all, but since we’re always inside now, what’s the difference?). Join us…
AN UPDATE FROM ERIC WITCHEY:
“Creativity does not stop because we must shelter in place. In fact, it becomes more important than ever. It seems that the corrosion virus has gotten into and eroded everything in our lives, yet we persist. We writers have the duty of creating stories that make…
The “Find Your Voice” Series with Linda Clare
These workshops were originally designed as a partnership with Springfield Public Library. We are offering them to you online via Zoom! Water Your Dry Spell May 13 | 6-8pm Writers at all levels are often asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” In the writing life,…
The Rejects Club
Don’t Quit, Submit your Sh*t! Find your local troupe of rejectees, send out your work, revise, and celebrate! Every month, we will get together (online until further notice) for a couple of hours on a Wednesday and send stories, essays, poems, grants, love letters, whatever you’re…
Mapping Your Memoir
In this fun and lively workshop, we’ll study the key building block of memoir–the scene–and its components including characterization, setting, sensory details, tension, surprise, and narrative arc.
FRIDAY NIGHT WRITES
FRIDAY NIGHT WRITES: Quarantine 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?
COMMUNITY & MEMBER EVENTS
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YOUTH CLASSES & CAMPS
Adventures in Writing Summer Camp
Young writers, get ready to go on an exciting exploration with Adventures in Writing Summer Camp! July 20-24, 2020
SciFi & Fantasy Camp
Young writers, get ready to create short stories set in your own scifi or fantasy world with SciFi & Fantasy Camp! | August 10-14, 2020
Quaran-teen Write-Ins
To support our young writers during covid, we’re offering a new virtual write-in. Join us Wednesday mornings for a writing prompt, 15-20 min writing bursts,…
Into the Deep
For High School Students (as of Fall 2020) A D&D-inspired story-telling adventure! This online summer creative camp is a role-playing adventure that uses collaborative storytelling…
LATEST ARTICLES & PODCASTS
Double Trouble: Put Your Setting to Work
“…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.”
Listen to Your Story
“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.”
Trust Me, I’m An Editor
“Try to resist the urge to prune a few bushes while the forest burns.”
A Bubble Off Plumb
“Whatever traits you want the reader to remember need to be magnified and exaggerated, even if only a little bit.”
