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
Writing Short Stories
Learn the art of writing short stories in this five-week workshop with Sarina Dorie.
Literary Mixer
Join us for our quarterly member event and mingle with your writer community at this laid-back literary mixer in our new studio.
Beyond Reality: Poetry Inspired by Surrealist Art
Write ekphrastic poems in response to Surrealist art in this poetry workshop with Erica Goss.
Come Play Story
Want to write? Have trouble writing fast enough? Stuck on “the” story and not able to start “a” story? Come play story with Wordcrafters and Eric Witchey at our spring quarterly member event!
Character IS Conflict
Join Eric Witchey in March and learn how behavior is character psychology manifests through opposing agendas.
Six-layered Classic Scenes
Join Eric Witchey in April to gain insights into scene development as well as tools to create emotionally powerful reader-based scenes.
YOUTH CLASSES & CAMPS
May Write Club: Rainbows, Unicorns, and Guts on the Page – LGBTQIA+ Storytelling
Young writers! Join us for our May Write Club workshop Rainbows, Unicorns, and Guts on the Page – LGBTQIA+ Storytelling with Melissa Hart.
June Write Club: Poetic Temperaments – Story, Music, Structure, Imagination
Young writers! Join us for our June Write Club workshop Poetic Temperaments – Story, Music, Structure, Imagination with Anna Ball.
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.”
