Join our monthly Get Lit group to hang out with your writing community and do some sprinting! If you’ve never done writing sprints before, there’s only one rule: get as many words on the page as you can before 20 minutes are up. We’ll run three writing sprints—one full hour. So come to our Get …
If your weekday evenings are full, join us during the day at our staple Get Lit to hang out with your writing community and do some sprinting! If you’ve never done writing sprints before, there’s only one rule: get as many words on the page as you can before 20 minutes are up. We’ll run …
Stories hinge on credible, compelling characters. It doesn’t matter the genre—most contemporary narratives demand character-driven storylines. And for those writing personal essays, there’s no escaping the “I” on the page. Whether based in the writer’s real-life experience or completely invented, intimacy and psychological depth are what modern readers crave. The rub is not all details …
Workshop leader: Bryan Camp Floods. Vampires. Shapeshifters. Cataclysms. These are just a few of the narratives that cycle throughout human storytelling, from culture to culture and from the ancient world through to today. In this lecture and workshop, we'll discuss a variety of mythic structures and how they can inform and inspire character, plot, and …
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We’re popping up at Parleaux Beer Lab! In addition, we are teaming up with LMNL Lit for a free writing workshop led by Erin Little. Erin will teach her workshop, Poets on Place, focused on the unique ways poetry can capture setting that other compositional modes cannot. The workshop begins at 6:30pm. Grab a pour …