A 1-Day Fiction & Nonfiction Writing Workshop
Saturday, August 16, 10 AM - 1 PM
This generative workshop is designed to provide writers with the tools to successfully transition from professional writing to creative writing.
If your background is in academia, journalism, law, or technical writing, you’ve had to follow a lot of rules!
We’ll discuss ways to harness the skills you already have by turning research into world building; using interview techniques to develop characters; employing hypotheticals to create plot scenarios; and experimenting with procedural documentation as the basis for scene building.
We’ll also work on strategies to allow greater creative freedom and joy in the writing process, using a range of stylistic examples and excerpts from participant writing.
$90 Members/$135 Nonmembers
Writer and editor Tanya Whiton’s fiction is forthcoming in Hypertext, and has recently been featured in Collateral, CutBank, Fanzine, The Cincinnati Review, and Beer & Weed Magazine. A finalist for the 2019 Tennessee Williams Contest, she won second place in Zoetrope: All Story’s 2017 Short Fiction Contest. A two-time recipient of the Martin Dibner Memorial Fellowship for Maine writers Tanya has also received New England Press Association Awards for her nonfiction work. In 2022, her essay, “For the Winter” was included in Breaking Bread: Essays from New England on Food, Hunger, and Family. And in 2014, with photographer Heidi Killion, she published a collection of travel essays, Two for the Road: Adventures in Maine. She is also the co-writer and an associate producer of the documentary feature THE ZEN SPEAKER: BREAKING THE SILENCE, and is currently adapting Maine author Elizabeth Garber’s memoir, Sailing at the Edge of Disaster, for a limited television series. For more, visit https://www.tanyakwhiton.com/ .
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
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For any questions regarding this workshop, please contact programs@mainewriters.org.
REGISTER BY PHONE
Call 207-200-7180 and register with your VISA or MasterCard.
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SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one partial scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Application Due by April 20 at 9:00 a.m.
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