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
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…
November Friday Night Writes
FRIDAY NIGHT WRITES: NaNoWriMo Edition! Friday night socializing for writers! Every Friday in November, come hang out with other writers, get some work done on that NaNoWriMo novel (or any other project you’re working on), and eat chocolate. What more could you ask for a Friday…
Plot Your Novel for NaNoWriMo with Springfield Library
Need some structure for your story? Come plot your novel just in time for NaNoWriMo.
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?
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…
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…
YOUTH CLASSES & CAMPS
Teen and Young Writers Workshops
Move past your first draft with a published writer and a squad of other writers your age!
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.”
