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
Fiction Workshop
Want to take your fiction up a notch? Hone your editor’s eye and improve your craft in style with Daryll Lynne Evans in this critique workshop.
Memoir Workshop
Are you working on a memoir and need some feedback and support? This biweekly workshop gives you the extra eyes and motivation from other writers.
Sci-Fi Fantasy Weekend with Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Join us for our annual sci-fi fantasy story weekend with Nina Kiriki Hoffman! Member registration opens January 15, 2020. General registration opens February 1, 2020.
Building Your Memoir from the Ground Up
This 10-month memoir intensive walks you through the building blocks of memoir and helps you complete the first draft in 2020.
FICTION FLUENCY 2020
Write deeper, write faster, write better. Discover how readers internalize story in heart and mind with Eric Witchey’s Fiction Fluency Seminars.
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…
COMMUNITY & MEMBER EVENTS
16
Apr
2020Literary Mixer
Have a beer or a tea, connect with other writers, and shoot the literary breeze. REGISTER HERE. We were originally planning for a literary game night. With the current health pandemic, we’ve suspended our in…
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Zoom
YOUTH CLASSES & CAMPS
Adventures in Writing Summer Camp
Young writers, get ready to go on an exciting exploration with Adventures in Writing Summer Camp!
SciFi & Fantasy Camp
Young writers, get ready to create short stories set in your own scifi or fantasy world with SciFi & Fantasy Camp! | August 5-9, 2019
SciFi Fantasy Studio for Young Writers with Nina Kiriki Hoffman
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…
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,…
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.”
