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Revising to Sell with Eric Witchey Find and court your readership in this December Fiction Fluency Seminar.

“Whatever traits you want the reader to remember need to be magnified and exaggerated, even if only a little bit.”

Congratulations to our finalists of the 2019 Fiction Fantastic Young Writers Contest Finalists!

Exploiting the Existing Text with Eric Witchey Become an expert revision-er in this November Fiction Fluency Seminar.

Nested Structures & Push-Pop Plots with Eric Witchey Up your story game by managing your reader’s innate puzzle solving skills in this October Fiction Fluency Seminar.

Managing Multiple POVs with Eric Witchey Discover how to lace plots and characters together, and build tension along the way in this September Fiction Fluency Seminar.

Manifesting Character in Text with Eric Witchey Use psychology to make your characters sing with voices of their own in this August Fiction Fluency Seminar.

Come write dark! Come write noir! Join author Valerie Brooks in this four week writing workshop and get ideas to develop your own contemporary noir.

Bring complex, believable characters to life with this four-week memoir master class!

Looking to add some sizzle into your writing? Join us for this romance writing workshop for writers who love romance (and those who aren’t comfortable with it but want to be!) 

Developing Story Top-down & Bottom-up with Eric Witchey Learn to fix any story in this July Fiction Fluency Seminar.

Controlling Story and Theme with Eric Witchey Link your scenes to form patterns that elicit emotional responses in your reader with the June Fiction Fluency Seminar.

Need some structure for your story? Come plot your novel just in time for Camp NaNoWriMo.

Young writers, get ready to create short stories set in your own scifi or fantasy world with SciFi & Fantasy Camp! | August 5-9, 2019

Young writers, get ready to go on an exciting exploration with Adventures in Writing Summer Camp!

Teen writers! Got what it takes to write a novel? Join Wordcrafters in Eugene for six weeks of novel writing madness!

“Try to resist the urge to prune a few bushes while the forest burns.”

“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.”

“…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.”

SciFi Fantasy Club 12 and Up Explore scifi and fantasy writing in this after-school young writers club with award-winning writer Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

We had so much fun talking with Eric about many things, but especially about his new novel Bull’s Labyrinth. (Eric reads the whole first chapter—so, so good!)