These five-week writing courses will combine lecture, writing practice, and workshop-style discussion, in addition to individualized attention for each applicant. Each week, the instructor will prompt the group with assignments exploring different aspects of craft; class participants will also critique each other's submissions, exercising their skills as readers well as writers. At least once during the semester, each participant will have a detailed online conference with the instructor.
Registration through PayPal, email, or snail mail. To sign up for a class, use this form, returned via email or snail mail. For more information, contact woodard.christian@gmail.com.
Creative Kickstart: Generating New Work with Marilyn McCabe
The purpose of this workshop is to try various techniques to let loose, shut down our internal editor, and generate the seeds of new work through writing prompts and creative play. Although led by a poet, this workshop might be useful for any of us trying to get out of our own way to let new ideas flow. Each week will have one or more new prompts. All will be encouraged to post the new (very!) rough drafts, but discussion will focus not on line editing but on the places in the work where energy is moving or where some fruitful directions may be revealed. Have fun, take risks, follow the movement of your mind, no matter how surprising.
Dates August 5th - September 9th
Cost: $200
Cost for ACW members and returning students: $175
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Fun with Facts: Engaging
Historical Writing for a General Audience with Niki
Kourofsky
You’ve found it: a sparkly needle in the historical haystack—a spectacular topic that has you transfixed, obsessing over sources and eager to share the story with the world. And you’re guessing everyone else will be equally spellbound. Guess again. It’s a cinch to find fascinating tales in history. But writing research-heavy, fact-filled prose that doesn't leave your readers snoozing between sentences? Not as easy. In “Fun with Facts: Engaging Historical Writing for a General Audience,” you’ll learn how to sell an idea to an editor; how to grab a reader’s attention and keep it; how to make a personal history relevant to strangers; and, of course, how to get your facts straight.
You’ve found it: a sparkly needle in the historical haystack—a spectacular topic that has you transfixed, obsessing over sources and eager to share the story with the world. And you’re guessing everyone else will be equally spellbound. Guess again. It’s a cinch to find fascinating tales in history. But writing research-heavy, fact-filled prose that doesn't leave your readers snoozing between sentences? Not as easy. In “Fun with Facts: Engaging Historical Writing for a General Audience,” you’ll learn how to sell an idea to an editor; how to grab a reader’s attention and keep it; how to make a personal history relevant to strangers; and, of course, how to get your facts straight.
May 1 - June
5
Cost: $200
Cost for ACW
members and returning students: $175
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Fiction writing with Boris
Fishman
A short story or novel in hand, do you ever catch yourself thinking, 'I'm dying to know what happens next'? Do you assume achieving this effect in your own prose requires some kind of magical power? Not so. If you want to learn how to write stories that are hard to put down without sacrificing intelligence or complexity, sign up for this class. Over seven weeks, we'll go from the bunny slopes of craft practice (plot, character, dialogue, setting, point of view, revision, and a host of others) up the beautiful mountain of a finished short story your readers won't be able to put down.
A short story or novel in hand, do you ever catch yourself thinking, 'I'm dying to know what happens next'? Do you assume achieving this effect in your own prose requires some kind of magical power? Not so. If you want to learn how to write stories that are hard to put down without sacrificing intelligence or complexity, sign up for this class. Over seven weeks, we'll go from the bunny slopes of craft practice (plot, character, dialogue, setting, point of view, revision, and a host of others) up the beautiful mountain of a finished short story your readers won't be able to put down.
May 27 -
June 24. (7 sessions)
Cost: $225
Cost for ACW
members and returning students: $200
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Poetry: The Bloodless Matador
with Rachel
McKibbens
In this
class poets will analyze and write poetry that has a wealth of imagery;
learning the importance of an image's placement and tone is key to making fresh
and memorable writing. We will discuss works by several poets including Lucille
Clifton, Aracelis Girmay, Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Nikky Finney.
May 20 - June 24th
Cost: $200
Cost for ACW
members and returning students: $175
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Characters: How to Engage and Connect with Your Readers with Eileen Robinson Characters are all around us. We see them in real life every day. So why should they be any different on the page?
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll focus on how to make your characters come alive and step off the page, connecting with children and teens! We will look at various children’s titles and discuss ways to build character and more importantly, how to draw readers in and make them care. In addition to hands-on assignments, your manuscripts will be your playgrounds as you work on engaging your readers from the beginning. Setting, dialogue and other elements of story will be discussed in relation to character.
Picture book, chapter book, middle-grade and young adult writers of fiction or nonfiction are welcome. There will be recommended reading and one-on-one time for each of you.
Dates May 20th - June 24th
Cost: $200
Cost for ACW
members and returning students: $175
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Professional Screenwriting Structure with Chris Millis
Ever thought, "Hey, that should be a movie?"
Well, don't wait around for someone
else to write it -- charging you $12.50 to watch your great idea on the
big screen. Get your screenplay written.
"But," you think, "where do I start?"
You start with a plan. Houses don't
get built without blueprints, and successful screenplays don't get
written without a plan. Professional screenwriter and bestselling
author, Chris Millis, will teach you, step-by-step, how to build your
story concept from an idea, to a story board, to an outline, to the
first draft of a professionally formatted feature film screenplay
Dates May 20th - June 24th
Cost: $200
Cost for ACW members and returning students: $175
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Cost: $200
Cost for ACW members and returning students: $175
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Carving Out the Poem: You, Your Poems, and the 3-Dimensional World with Jon Sands
When
our life experience suggests that celebration always comes laced with
melancholy, and joy is a border that surrounds sorrow; how can we
construct writing that acknowledge a complicated and dynamic
world? How do we avoid writing that transforms us into caricatures? How
can we guide our readers into the experience of what it actually feels
like to be alive in 2013? In this workshop, we will explore tangible ways to construct a 3-dimensional spectrum of emotion in our
writing. Bring your sense of adventure as we take our art to the edge
of the universe, and bring back proof that we’ve been there.
Dates May 27th - July 1st
Cost: $200
Cost for ACW members and returning students: $175
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