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
Like Day 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 …
Emotional-Causal Story Saturday, April 3rd, 1-4 | Members $35 | Nonmembers $59 REGISTER NOW Have you ever written a story that almost works and then been unable to fix it? Have you ever stared at the blank page and wondered where to start? Either way, the ED ACE tool …
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? Hey, Writer Friends! In light of the …
From support and mentorship, to actual critique groups, to one-on-one partners, come meet the writing group of your dreams! This casual speed-dating event is a fun, laid back way to meet new writing friends. October 14, 2021 6-8 pmOnline Via Zoom Members: Free | Nonmembers: $15 REGISTER NOW HOW IT …
Visual Arts Meet Poetry Use Visual Art For Your Poetic Creativity! Let one genre inspire the other Due to the current coronavirus pandemic, museums from all over the world have made their collections available for online viewing. In this class, we will write ekphrastic poems (poems inspired by …
Over one weekend, memoirist and MFA Creative Writing instructor Melissa Hart will guide writers in crafting, revising, and submitting a 750-word memoir piece to specific magazines and newspapers. Spend a weekend focused on writing and community. We’ll kick off Saturday afternoon with a four-hour writing …
YOUTH CLASSES & CAMPS
An LGBTQIA2S+ YA Reading Group TEENS Join Rainbow Reads–a young adult LGBTQIA2S+ book group for Lane County teens hosted by Wordcrafters in Eugene in partnership with the …
Science Fiction / Fantasy Studio 12* and Up Explore science fiction and fantasy writing in this after-school young writers studio with award-winning writer Nina Kiriki Hoffman. Let’s create …
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.”
