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Workshops for Adults One
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for Young Writers |
| Special
News from the HVWC: |
The
Shirley Altman Scholarship Fund
The
Shirley Altman Scholarship Fund will allow the HVWC to offer financial aid to
HVWC students of all ages and backgrounds starting with the 2011 Fall term.
To
apply, candidates should submit: • a brief
letter of interest. This letter should include background information; the HVWC
class/workshop to be taken; personal description of the impact this scholarship
would have on the candidate.
• A recent writing sample (if applicable)
•
Contact information including an e-mail address
• Please Indicate: WriteStart
(scholarships for kids)
WriteOn (scholarships for adults)
WriteMind (scholarships
for professional development) All requests
will be reviewed by the HVWC scholarship committee and distribution will be on
a first come, first served basis. The purpose of this fund is to offer financial
assistance to those students who wish to take classes at the Writers’ Center or
an HVWC program at an off-site location. Students may receive funding for one
workshop per year, and may reapply the following year. Letters should be addressed
to the HVWC Scholarship Review Committee, 300 Riverside Drive, Sleepy Hollow,
NY, 10591.
*Shirley Altman, writer, poet, and artist, was, until
her death, and a student at the HVWC. Donations to the Shirley Altman Scholarship
Fund can be made by writing or calling the Writers’ Center. |
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Fall
2011 Writing Workshops for Adults
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YOUR
BOOK STARTS HERE: REVISING YOUR MANUSCRIPT (continuing
class)
with Mary Carroll Moore
6 MONDAYS, 10am-1:30pm
Sept 19-Nov 7 (No class:
Oct 10 & 24)
Fee: $395 (Moore returnees $375) Code:
MCMf11a
Take your manuscript to the next stage by analyzing it from the
three levels of revision: content, structure, and language. Use your storyboard
to refine the three-act structure of your book and take the next step toward publication.
For memoir, novel, and nonfiction book writers who have a manuscript in draft
or revision stage and a working storyboard.
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YOUR
BOOK STARTS HERE
with Mary Carroll Moore
6 MONDAYS, 2-5:30pm
Sept 19-Nov 7 (No class: Oct
10 & 24)
Fee: $395 (Moore returnees $375) Code:
MCMf11b
Books often start with a simple yearning to explore new territory:
fascinating topics, characters who won’t leave you alone, a good story. But manuscripts
get unwieldy, fast. One out of ten writers never finish the manuscript because
most first-time book writers get lost without good structure and planning. Mary
Carroll Moore, award-winning author of thirteen published books in three genres
and a PEN/Faulkner nominee, will guide you through a simple and successful book-writing
and editing process that can take your book from idea to publication, using “islands”
(dramatic moments), storyboarding, and a three-act structure that eases organization
and makes a manuscript vivid and engaging to readers. For writers of memoir, fiction,
and nonfiction who have a book idea or manuscript-in-progress. Find out why past
students have called this class “the best writing course I ever attended” and
were able to leave with “a book that is finally alive …, flowing, and fun to write!” Status:
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RITUAL
WRITING
with
Steven Sher
4
MONDAYS, 1-3pm
Nov 14-Dec 5
Fee: $150 Code: SSf11a
How can
we deepen the creative source from which we draw? Too often we place greater emphasis
on “voice,” let ourselves get bogged down by technical matters of craft or form,
while neglecting the “soul” component or foundation issues of our work (moral
and ethical concerns; spiritual training; tradition and rituals; family and communal
values). Writing ought to start at the writer’s core, with a clear vision, drawing
from the deeply familiar and life-guiding themes, and building a “personal mythology”
while creating personal ritual. Participants are asked to bring in a new writing
sample to the first session. Discussions and constructive feedback with exercises
to follow. Topics will include: ritual space and emotional climate; triggers;
personal mythology; craft; slant and voice; drafting, editing, and marketing strategies.
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AUTUMN
POETRY WORKSHOP (continuing class)
with B.
K. Fischer
7 MONDAYS, 7-9pm
Sept 19, Oct 3, 17, 31, Nov
14, 28, Dec 12
Fee: $295 (Fischer returnees $285); Code: BFf11a
Bring
your work to fruition this fall. In seven sessions spaced two weeks apart, this
workshop will support the process of developing and completing new work—from the
inspiration to the envelope. We will begin with strategies for culling fresh material
and generating first drafts, then address the revision process and methods for
strengthening and intensifying the work. Ongoing discussion will address many
aspects of poetic craft, including voice, form, line, image, and musicality, and
some exercises will be done in class, but the emphasis will be on gathering momentum
for individual projects over the course of the fall. Participants should be comfortable
drafting poems and expect to complete a suite of six or more poems in the 14-week
period. The workshop will also include coaching for the submission process, offering
practical tips, resources, and camaraderie. Status:
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MEMOIR
WRITING WORKSHOP
with Susan Hodara
8
TUESDAYS, 10am-12:30pm
Sept 20-Nov 15 (no class Oct 11)
Fee: $340
(Hodara returnees $330) Code: SHf11a
Are you inspired to record the transforming
events of your life? Are you drawn to explore the circumstances surrounding your
most vivid memories? For those with a work-in-progress or those starting fresh,
this class will offer a supportive environment wherein each week you will read
aloud and receive constructive feedback. Writers at all levels of accomplishment,
and with projects both full-length and short-form, are welcome. Status:
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ONLY
NARRATIVE
with Peter Bricklebank
6
TUESDAYS, 1:30-3:30pm
Oct 25 - Nov 29
Fee: $240 (Bricklebank returnees
$225) Code: PBf11a
E.L. Doctorow has written, “I am led to the proposition
that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction;
there is only narrative.” As writers, what matters is how we tell our stories:
how we find a structure to engage our readers, a voice in which to tell our tales,
a language that can handle our idea. In this workshop for writers of both fiction
and non-fiction, we’ll examine what drives our narratives and what will make them
better. Using elements associated with fiction but equally respected by any nonfiction
writer, we’ll investigate the question, “Where is the border between fiction and
nonfiction?” And when we find that border, we’ll cross it.
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BLOG
WRITING WORKSHOP
with Ilana Arazie
5
TUESDAYS, 7-9
Sept 13-Oct 11
Fee: $200 Code: IAf11a
Have a
blog or would like to start one? Whether you are a writer, business owner or hobbyist,
a blog is one of the best ways to showcase your talents and create an online following.
This class teaches you the art of blog writing and how to create a compelling
blog online. Learn what makes a blog successful and attract viewers; and what
mistakes to avoid. Most importantly, work on your blog posts each week, find motivation
to create your best work and get feedback each week on your writing. By the end
of this class, you will have 8-10 completed blog posts ready for the Web, and
the enthusiasm and support needed to keep blogging. This class will help you start
a blog and create writing that both you and your audience can connect to weekly.
We will mostly focus on writing, but we will also go over the blogging basics:
technology, design, maintenance and promotion/social media. Status:
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AUTUMN
POETRY WORKSHOP
with B. K. Fischer
6
SUNDAYS, 7-9pm
Oct 2, 16, 30, Nov 6, 20, Dec 4
Fee: $255 (Fischer returnees
$245); Code: BFf11b
Bring your work to fruition this fall. In seven sessions
spaced two weeks apart, this workshop will support the process of developing and
completing new work—from the inspiration to the envelope. We will begin with strategies
for culling fresh material and generating first drafts, then address the revision
process and methods for strengthening and intensifying the work. Ongoing discussion
will address many aspects of poetic craft, including voice, form, line, image,
and musicality, and some exercises will be done in class, but the emphasis will
be on gathering momentum for individual projects over the course of the fall.
Participants should be comfortable drafting poems and expect to complete a suite
of six or more poems in the 14-week period. The workshop will also include coaching
for the submission process, offering practical tips, resources, and camaraderie.
Status:
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WRITING
FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
with Nora Baskin 8
WEDNESDAYS, 1:30-3:30pm
Oct 5 - Nov 30 (No class Nov 23)
Fee:
$320 (Baskin returnees $310), Code: NBf11a
This eight week class will
take you through the basics of writing for young audiences, from creating believable
characters, finding your authentic voice, structuring both picture books and novels,
and understanding the business of publishing. There will be in-class writing,
take home exercises, and thoughtful positive group critiquing. There is no better
way to learn to write, than to take risks, write, share your work, and get feedback.
The young adult market has never been more creative, exciting, and open to fresh
new voices and ideas - break into the scene now!
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THE
SONGWRITING WORKSHOP 2.0*
with Kinny Landrum
New
Students Preview (3 WEDNESDAYS) $60, Sept 14, 21, and Oct 5
Continuing Student
Workshop (6 WEDNESDAYS) $200, Oct 26, Nov 2, 16, 30, Dec 7, 14
Full Workshop
(9 WEDNESDAYS) $250
This songwriting workshop is designed to be useful
to both the beginning and more experienced songwriter. To that end, it is divided
into two parts that can either be done consecutively or separately.
In
the first three weeks, we will discuss and demonstrate the basic techniques of
songwriting, both music and lyrics. This will be oriented toward both the beginning
songwriter as well as those who wish to improve or broaden their talents. We will
listen to and analyze songs from all genres and eras, including the writers of
the Great American Songbook such as Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, and Johnny
Mercer. We will also listen to the great rock era songwriters, including Bob Dylan,
Lennon/McCartney, Jimmy Webb and others. CDs and lyric sheets will be provided.
In the next five meetings, we will write our own songs and have them heard
and critiqued by the whole class. The objective here will be to have everyone
write at least one song by the end of the workshop and play and/or sing it for
the class. Instrumental expertise will not be required since the instructor, as
well as fellow students, will be available to play the music. It is the willingness
to have one’s songs performed, or to perform them oneself, and to have them heard
and discussed by the group that will be paramount.
For the last meeting
of the workshop, there will be a performance by all the participants of at least
one or more songs they have written, either while in the workshop or outside,
for an invited audience.
* This workshop will take place at
The JCC on the Hudson – 371 South Broadway in Tarrytown. Through this partnership
the HVWC is able to waive the registration fee for this class to all JCC on the
Hudson members.
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THE
VERSATILE PERSONAL ESSAY
with Herbert Hadad
5
WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm
Sept 14 - Oct 19
Fee: $200 (Hadad returnees $190)
Code: HHf11a
The personal essay is a form for all seasons. It can be a
memoir or a short story in disguise; it allows for the most satisfying and polished
examination of ideas, beliefs, troubles and pleasures by writers of all experience
levels. More than any other kind of non-fiction writing, the essay offers the
opportunity to express, in a short and conversational form, the whole range of
thoughts and feelings. Bring a work in progress to the first session. Status:
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FROM
BEEKEEPING TO SURFING: EXPLORING YOUR OWN NEW POEMS
with
Amy Holman
4 WEDNESDAYS, 6:45-8:45pm
Oct 26-Nov 16
Fee:
$190 (Holman returnees $180) Code: AHf11a
This class encourages participants
to take their interests and curiosities in other subjects and explore them in
their poems, both to break out of current patterns in their work and to infuse
their poems with new ideas. We will read through poems of other poets who have
written on the subjects of bees, surfing, interest rates, archaeology, medicine,
math, biology, history, glassblowing, the news, and other subjects, and review
a few magazines receptive to particular subjects or themes. Participants should
bring an article or advertisement to use in a writing exercise. Status:
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COMEDY
WRITING SECRETS REVEALED!
with John Marshall
6 THURSDAYS, 1-3
Sept 15-Oct 27 (no class Sept 29)
Fee: $240
Code: JMf11a
Television comedy writer John Marshall (The Chris Rock Show,
Politically Incorrect, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn) blows the lid off timehonored
comedy principles used in successful monologues, sketches, sitcoms and screenplays.
Anyone can become funnier if you know the right tools and techniques. John Marshall
shares 20 years of experience in the humor trenches, covering jokes, comic characters,
comic stories and the comic voice. Using in-class exercises and at-home assignments,
he gives a thorough introduction to comedy writing fundamentals.
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HOW
TO WRITE PAGE-TURNING FICTION
with Joanne Dobson
6 THURSDAYS, 7-9pm
Sept 22 - Nov 10 (no class Sept 29 &
Nov 3)
Fee: $240 (Dobson returnees $230) Code: JDf11a
If you’ve ever
stayed up ‘til three with a compelling novel, you’ve probably wondered, “How do
they do that?” Study the literary techniques of popular genres, and learn how
to create compelling plots in a unique voice, harnessing the conflict and tension
between sympathetic protagonists and disquieting antagonists. Whether your characters
inhabit the extreme world of detection and intrigue, or the everyday life of private
agonies and personal satisfactions, your writing can benefit from that special
“can’t-put-it-down” magic. Status:
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THE
ELEMENTS OF STYLE: A POETRY WORKSHOP
with Kathleen
Ossip
6 Fridays, 10am-12pm
Sept 16-Oct 28 (no class Oct
7)
Fee: $250 (Ossip returnees $240) Code: KOf11a
“A poem,” said
William Carlos Williams, “is a small (or large) machine made of words – efficient,
with no unnecessary parts, doing important work.” In this workshop, we explore
the process of building poems from the individual word through lines and stanzas
to a finished, polished poem. Writing exercises and assignments help you practice
basic elements of poetic craft, such as line breaks, voice, and openings and closings.
We’ll read a variety of contemporary poets, selected according to students’ interests
and needs. Class time focuses on reading and discussing your poems.
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THE
POETRY MANUSCRIPT
with Kathleen Ossip
6
Fridays, 10am-12pm
Nov 4-Dec 16 (no class Nov 25)
Fee: $250 (Ossip returnees
$240) Code: KOf11b
You feel you know how to write a poem. You have 10
or 20 or 30 poems you’re proud of. What next? For many poets, the answer is: Putting
together a chapbook or book-length manuscript. After spending so much time crafting
individual poems, it can be difficult to see the big picture. In this workshop,
we’ll explore the manuscript process: grouping, organizing, pruning, and adding
to your book or chapbook. We’ll spend class time reading and discussing your manuscripts,
focusing on how the individual poems cohere as a satisfying whole. We’ll also
talk about the process of seeking publication for your manuscript. Status:
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STRATEGIES
FOR MEMOIR & NONFICTION
with
Mindy Lewis
5 FRIDAYS, 12:30-3pm
Oct 21, Nov 4, 18, Dec
2, 16
Fee: $295 (Lewis returnees $290) Code: MLf11b
You have a
slew of pages, some bits and pieces, or just the desire to write. Now what? This
workshop will help you identify thematic threads and explore possibilities. Through
insightful critique and stimulating, supportive discussion, we hone the tools
of strong writing: distinctive voice, precise language, resonant imagery, vivid
sensory description, dramatic scene and dialogue, reflection, inventive form.
Writing prompts, handouts and class discussion will inspire new writing and deepen
understanding of craft. Status:
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REAL
FICTION
with David Surface
6 SATURDAYS,
10:30-12:30
Oct15-Nov 19
Fee: $250 (Surface returnees $240) Code: DSf11b
Keep it real is more than a slogan-it’s what good writers do. In this
workshop, you’ll learn how to do more than just tell a story; you’ll learn how
to make your reader experience the story for themselves. You’ll learn how to develop
characters who walk right off the page and command your reader’s attention. And
you’ll get to know your characters so well that they’ll tell you where they want
to go until it feels like your story is writing itself. Both experienced and beginning
writers will learn craft-based techniques in a relaxed and supportive setting
that will help you start new writing projects, finish old ones, and take your
writing to the next level. Status:
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Fall
2011 One and Two Day Workshops
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“CAN
YOU HEAR ME NOW?” - READING YOUR WORK ALOUD
with Estha
Weiner
TUESDAY, 1-4pm
Oct 11
Fee: $110 (Weiner returnees
$100) Code: EWf11a
This is a vital intensive for any writers who will
ever want to read their work aloud, or for any writer who has an upcoming reading
to prepare for, or who has just had a book published and needs help selling it
(or for anyone who just wants to feel easy about reading aloud)! When reading
aloud you are both an actor and a writer – a piece of prose or poetry lives on
the page and “on the stage.” In this three hour intensive, we will provide you
with a variety of easily-developed skills in order to create a memorable experience
for you and your audience by practicing techniques and projection. It will be
hands-on, so bring something to read, and jump in!
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BREAKNG
INTO MAGAZINES
with Alix Strauss
2
WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm
Nov 9 & 16
Fee: $150 Code: ASf11a
For this
two-day intensive, you’ll receive an overview of the wonderful, and ever-changing
world of magazine publishing. In a supportive and encouraging environment, we’ll
go over the various types of articles; the personal essay; the Q&A/interview;
the travel story; the round up; the profile. Explore the differences between print
and on-line, regional and national and daily versus monthly publications. Learn
how to create the perfect pitch, how to work with an editor, the process of writing
and how to create the ideal query. Discuss how to get the next job and where to
find your next story. Please bring questions, article ideas and things you are
interested in writing about.
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SECRETS
OF SUCCESFUL INTERVIEWING FOR WRITERS
with Penny Pearlman
THURSDAY,
1-3pm
Nov 3
Fee: $85 (Pearlman returnees $75) Code: PPf11a Interviewing
skills are invaluable for obtaining the kind of stories and information that add
color to fiction, non-fiction, news articles and radio and television interviewing.
Getting the most interesting stories and comments from interview subjects is an
art. Participants will learn how to get subjects to meet with them, whether that
person is a celebrity or the woman on the street, how to put both yourself and
your subject at ease, and how to prepare and ask the right questions, and how
to use silence to elicit those special tidbits that give life to a story, as well
as other interviewing techniques. During the workshop, participants will have
the opportunity to practice these interviewing skills. Status:
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HOW
TO WRITE ORIGINAL HORROR, SCI-FI, OR FANTASY
with David
Surface
2 THURSDAYS, 7-9pm
Dec 1 & 8
Fee: $90
(Surface returnees $80) Code: DSf11a
The challenge for any writer is to
make the characters and situations in their stories feel real and compelling to
the reader. For writers of supernatural or fantastical fiction, that challenge
can be twice as difficult, but well-worth trying. In this special intensive workshop
you will learn practical tools to help on make your fiction the best it can be.
We will look at how past and present masters of the genre have created believable
fantastical characters and situations on the page and then try those methods ourselves.
Furthermore, we will look at how to create fantastical, imaginative stories that
feel fresh and original (and therefore stand the best chance of catching and holding
your readers’ attention).
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| FALL
MEMOIR INTENSIVE
with Mindy Lewis
2 FRIDAYS,
12:30-3pm
Sept 16 & 30
Fee: $125 (Lewis returnees $120) Code: MLf11a
Can’t make both classes? Take just one of them at a prorated cost
of $65.
Refresh your writing practice in a stimulating atmosphere
of collaborative exploration. Participants will share and discuss short pieces,
inspired by writing prompts, handouts, and discussion of process and craft. Continuing
and new writers welcome; genres: memoir, creative nonfiction, personal essay. Status:
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WRITER'S
BOOT CAMP: HOW TO GET A LITERARY AGENT
with Prill
Boyle, Jessica Bram, Lucy Hedrick, Denise Marcil,
& Nina Nelson
SATURDAY, 9:30am-12:30pm
June
25
Code: LHf11a
Fee: $125
Have
you ever thought, “maybe I’ve got a book here;” “so-and-so says I should share
my knowledge with others;” “maybe my story could help other people;” or “I think
I’ve got a great idea for a novel?” This three-hour workshop will help you get
your project off the ground!
This special session will feature five distinguished
panelists:
• Jessica Bram, nonfiction author of Happily Ever After
Divorce: Notes on a Joyful Journey
• Lucy Hedrick, fiction author of Premarital
Assets, as well as five-time nonfiction author
• Prill Boyle, nonfiction
author of Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-blooming Women
• Nina
Nelson, author of middle-grade children’s book, Bringing the Boy Home
•
Denise Marcil, President & Founder, Denise Marcil Literary Agency, New York, NY,
who has sold almost 2,000 books
Participants will learn: what agents are
looking for and what will distinguish you from so many other submissions; requirements
for current fiction and memoir; requirements of nonfiction book proposals; the
importance of ‘platform’ and how to build one; how to research and meet agents,
and the features of a query letter that will get your work requested.
*An
optional ‘Brown Bag’ lunch with the panelists is available for an additional $25
per person and is limited to 15 participants.
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VARIATIONS
ON BOOKBINDING:
A PRIMER FOR MAKING YOUR OWN CHAPBOOKS
with
Shanna Yarbrough
2 SATURDAYS, 11am-2pm
Dec 10 & 17
Fee:
$225 + $20 material fee* Code: SYf11a
In this two-session course, we will
examine two highly functional and stylish methods of binding a chapbook -- whether
you are interested in a creating a single volume or an edition of 100.
Using
blank** text pages, students will learn how to properly measure and cut/tear paper
for a text block, as well as the basic pamphlet stitch and a 5-hole variant. The
first class will focus on creating chapbooks with non-adhesive paper covers. The
second session will build upon these lessons and introduce students to constructing
pamphlets with cloth-covered boards for a presentation of their work that is both
durable and beautiful.
The finished books are intended as binding models
for your future use, but also make a great start on a manuscript chapbook. Discussions
will include where to purchase materials, pastemaking basics, and an overview
of page layout and printing options, as well as methods of efficiently producing
a larger edition of your work and where to sell it.
*$20 materials
fee includes a basic tool kit (bone folder, glue brush, scalpel and blades) and
supplies, including paper, backcloth and binder’s board for your projects. Please
bring a cutting mat with you to help protect the tables at our facility!
**If
you are interested in bringing in pre-printed pages of your own writing for this
workshop, please contact the instructor for layout and size requirements prior
to class.
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| BREAKING
IN, STANDING OUT:
WRITING FOR CHILDREN'S & YOUNG ADULT MARKETS
with
Tony Abbott, Nora Raleigh Baskin, & Elise Broach
SATURDAY,
1-3pm
Oct 22
Fee: $80 Code: NBf11b
Three award winning
children’s book authors discuss publishing in today’s fastest growing literary
market. In a wide-ranging panel, Tony Abbott, Elise Broach, and Nora Raleigh Baskin
cover the art, craft, and business of writing, from picture books to young adult
fiction.
Topics for discussion will include (but are not limited to):
•
different approaches to the writing process
• strategies for marketing your
manuscripts and increasing your chances of publication
• making connections
with other authors, agents, and editors
• the role of electronic social media
in the writing and publishing life
• how to sustain a writing career
A
question and answer session concludes the panel, followed by a special reception
at which participants will have the opportunity for one on one time with the authors.
Tony Abbott - Abbott has published over ninety books for readers
6 to 14, including the series The Haunting of Derek Stone and The Secrets of Droon,
and the award-winning novels Firegirl and The Postcard. His novel Lunch-Box Dream
and a new series Underworlds appear in 2011. Tony also teaches in the MFA Creative
Writing program at Lesley University in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Nora
Raleigh Baskin - Baskin is the author of several novels for young people.
She has also published short story and personal narrative essays which have appeared
in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and The Writer Magazine. Her 8th young adult
novel, The Summer Before Boys was released by S&S last spring and a new YA novel,
Surfacing will be published in 2013 by Candlewick Press.
Elise Broach
- Broach is the author of 12 books for children, ranging from board books
to young adult novels. Her picture book When Dinosaurs Came with Everything won
the E.B. White Read Aloud Award, and her middle-grade mystery Masterpiece was
a New York Times Bestseller. The first book in her new mystery trilogy, Missing
on Superstition Mountain, was recently selected as an Amazon 2011 Best Books of
the Year. Status:
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Fall
2011 Workshops for Young Writers
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| WORDS
WITH WINGS: CREATIVE WRITING FOR 6th-8th GRADERS
with
Kate Gallagher
6 WEDNESDAYS, 4-5:30pm
Sept 14-Oct
26 (no class Sept 28)
Fee: $205 (Gallagher returnees $190) Code: KGf11a
We’re pleased to offer a workshop for middle-grade students as a bridge
between our children’s and young adult classes. Students will further their exploration
of poetry through form, voice, metaphor, and will experiment with narrative through
shape and point of view in characterdriven stories. We will also look at how to
critique constructively, and to rethink and develop our work through revision.
The only prerequisite for this course is that you love to write! Status:
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WRITING
THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD: CREATIVE
WRITING FOR 3rd-5th Graders
with
Kate Gallagher
10 Thursdays; 4-5:30
Sept
22-Dec 8 & a class reading (no class Sept 29 & Nov 24)
Fee: $300 (Gallagher
returnees $285) Code: KGf11b
Each day you take in the world around you
– a fly perched on a leaf, the smell of spaghetti sauce bubbling on the stove,
the sound of traffic rushing by. How do these things work their way into stories
and poems? This class will stimulate your senses and your imaginations, allow
you to explore various writing techniques, and share ideas in a comfortable setting.
All levels welcome.
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LEARNING
TO SEE™: CREATIVE WRITING FOR TEENS AGE 13+
with
Brenda Connor-Bey
10 SATURDAYS, 3-5:30pm
Sept 17
- Dec 10 (No class: Oct 8 & 22; Nov 26)
Fee:
$400 (Connor-Bey returnees $390) Code: BCBf11a
Young writers will be encouraged
to find their own voices and develop their visions. Participants will be challenged
to use all of their personal resources to dig beneath the surface and to express
what their imaginations have created. The sounds of words and the images they
create will be celebrated. Connor-Bey promises, “It’s not like school,” and a
small-group format will maximize individual attention. Status:
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THE
GIRLS' BEST GUIDE TO WRITING STORIES
with Kate St.
Vincent Vogl
SATURDAY, 9am-12pm
Dec 3
Fee:
$60 Code: KVf11a
Are you the kind of girl who can tell stories that keep
your friends on the edge of their sleeping bags? Maybe you’d like to write newspaper
stories like Kit (American Girl) or you’ve got an idea even better than any book
about Hunger Games or Percy Jackson and the Olympians -- but you’re just not sure
the best way to get all your ideas down on paper. This class will show you how,
so bring your imagination! First things first: we’ll look at story starters, story
endings and what your characters have to say. We’ll see what makes a good character
great and what keeps readers coming back for more. Then we’ll put it all together
and find out how to shape those ideas into a story. This Best Guide offers the
tricks of the trade you need to know for writing stories. One thing is for sure:
If Snoopy can, so can you!
(For girls in 4th-6th grade)
Status:
Open and accepting registrations
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Hudson Valley Writers’ Center at William E. Cottle School
We at the HVWC are proud to announce this new partnership
with our friends and neighbors at the William E. Cottle School in Eastchester’s
Tuckahoe School District. These two workshops will be held on the campus of the
William E. Cottle School* but will be registration will be open to the general
public.
LEARNING TO SEE™: CREATIVE WRITING
FOR TEENS AGE 13+
with Brenda Connor-Bey
5
WEDNESDAYS, 3-4pm
Oct 5-Nov 2
Fee: $210 Code: BCBf11wec
Want
to write poetry? A short story? Or learn how to use journals to organize your
life? Young writers will be encouraged to refine their “writer’s eye” and find
their own voices. Participants will be challenged to use all of their personal
resources to dig beneath the surface, and to express and celebrate what their
imaginations have created. Connor-Bey promises, “It’s not like school,” and a
smallgroup format will nurture maximum individualization.
WORDS
WITH WINGS: CREATIVE WRITING FOR 6th-8th GRADERS
with
Kate Gallagher
6 TUESDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm
Oct 4 - Nov 8
Fee: $180 Code: KGf11wec
Each day you take in the world around
you – a fly perched on a leaf, the smell of spaghetti sauce bubbling on the stove,
the sound of traffic rushing by. How do these things work their way into stories
and poems? This class will stimulate your senses and your imaginations, allow
you to explore various writing techniques, and share ideas in a comfortable setting.
All levels welcome.
*These workshops will take place
at the William E. Cottle School – 2 Siwanoy Boulevard in Eastchester, NY. Through
this partnership the HVWC is able to waive the registration fee for these classes
to all William E. Cottle School Students.
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Please
note that there is a nonrefundable $25 administrative fee per workshop
for students
who
are NOT members of the Writers' Center (HVWC).
($15 for youths, seniors, and our shorter one and two-day workshops)
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For
further information on any of our workshop offerings, call the HVWC at 914.332.5953
or email us at info@writerscenter.org |
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Recent Past workshop digital catalogs:
Summer
2011
Winter/Spring
2011
Fall 2010
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