Winter 2009 Workshops at Writers & Books

Creative Writing

Writing to Change Consciousness

WA9-C01
5 Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.
Feb. 26 through March 26
$99 W&B members / $104 general public
Instructor: David White

Writers write to change consciousness, theirs and their readers, and to be handy with ideas as well as with works.  This seminar will pick apart the ideational structure of some specimens of best-selling, popular philosophy and then scrutinize material under development by members of the seminar.  Those who wish to will have the opportunity to sample their work before audiences at the Bertrand Russell Society, St. John Fisher College and the Popular Culture Association.

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2000 Word Club

WA9-C02
8 Fridays 2-4 p.m.
Feb. 6 through Mar. 27
$175 W&B members / $180 general public
Instructor: Len Messineo

The most useful 2000 words in the English language may be yours. In traditional societies, the elders held a revered place. They were the keepers of the stories, repositories of wisdom passed on to them from the past and derived from their hard- won lifelong experience. They held the key to who we are and how we ought to live.

The purpose of the 2000 Word Club is to offer class members an opportunity to explore the various creative writing general fiction, memoir, creative essay, experimental forms and even chapters of larger works—to find the form most amenable to their experience and imagination. The only requirement, manuscripts must be under 2000 words. Class members manuscripts are critiqued in a cordial and supportive environment, craft issues discussed, and suggestions made to make manuscripts more readable/marketable.

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