WE GROW WRITERS
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.
ADULT CLASSES & EVENTS
Fiction Fluency Program
Starts Dec 2 | Learn to write immersive stories intuitively in this 9-month online intensive fiction writing program.
Be Writing!
Tuesdays 9:15-11:45 am | Get the butt in chair time you need to get your writing done.
Bring Your Pages
Tuesdays 7-9pm | Grow your writing craft and community at a weekly, writer-led critique circle facilitated by Daryll Lynne Evans.
Word.
2nd Thursdays, 7-9 pm | Share your words at our monthly open mic emceed by spoken word poet Jorah LaFleur
The BIG READ: Lane County
From November to March, Join the Shelton McMurphey Johnson House and more to read, talk about, and create art around Roz Chast’s memoir in comics, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant.
Year-End Reflection + Goal Setting
Dec 7 | Take time to reflect on your writing and make goals for next year.
YOUTH CLASSES & CAMPS
Rainbow Reads
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!
Word.
2nd Thursdays, 7-9 pm | Share your words at our monthly open mic emceed by spoken word poet Jorah LaFleur
December Write Club (for Youth): Roll-Up a Holiday Story with Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Dec 9 | Join Nina Kiriki Hoffman to create a magical holiday story just for young writers!
Stories From the Helix
Dec 10 | See StoryHelix stories come to life at a Minority Voices Theatre production of community stories
LATEST ARTICLES & NEWS
Why Goal-Setting is Important for Writers and How to Set Goals for Your Own Writing
Every dream has to start somewhere. Writing goals help you figure out where you want to go and to get there.
Q&A with Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Get to know instructor Nina Kiriki Hoffman and learn about her favorite writing prompt and her love of stringed instruments.
Battling Writer’s Block? Try Writing Prompts to Break Through
If you write, you’ll find yourself butting up against writer’s block at some point. It’s OK. You can free yourself with writing prompts. Here’s how.
The Power of Dialogue in Playwriting
Whether it’s a novel, short story, news article, or prose, dialogue serves as a narrative device that moves the story forward, reveals personalities and relationships, creates tension, and creates or resolves conflict. But what about in plays?
Wordcrafters Receives Two Grants from Oregon Arts Commission
Shelton McMurphey Johnson House and Wordcrafters Partner for Community Reading Events
Wordcrafters Teams Up with Minority Voices Theatre to Bring Local Stories to Life
