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
Teacher Talks -The Book Club
A reading and discussion group for writing instructors and enthusiasts.
“Our Stories” with the NAACP
The community, Wordcrafters, and the NAACP are happy to present a new community storytelling program, “Our Stories.” Over the course of a year, we’ll explore topics by theme marked by an ancient proverb.
Write, Revise, & Submit – Short Memoir Weekend Intensive
Over one weekend, Melissa Hart will guide writers in crafting, revising, and submitting a 750-word memoir piece to specific magazines and newspapers.
Guided Journaling Hour
Create a powerful practice of self-reflection in this six week guided journaling workshop with Emma Stockman.
Advanced Fiction Fluency Coast Retreat 2023
Do you have a story to contribute to the world? Do you want to be a deeper, faster, better writer? Do you want to write stories that readers can’t put down? You have taken the Fiction Fluency seminars and found the power they support in your…
Decisions and Actions Reveal Character
Join Eric Witchey in February to explore the relationship between character decisions, character psychology, and backstory.
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!
February Write Club: Zine Maps & Placemaking
Young writers! Join us for our February Write Club workshop Zine Maps & Placemaking with Jen Hernandez.
March Write Club: Memoir
Young writers! Join us for our March Write Club workshop on writing Memoir with Dante Zúñiga-West.
April Write Club: Exploring Poetry
Young writers! Join us for our April Write Club workshop Exploring Poetry with Erica Goss.
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.”
