Autumn 2011 Full Course Listing

Poetry

• Advanced Poetry Writing
• “Married to Amazement”: The Life and Works of Poet Mary Oliver.
• Unpuzzling the Poem: An Introductory Poetry Workshop
• Beginning Poetry: An Online Course for New Voices

Creative Writing

• Just Who’s Telling This (True) Story, Anyway?
• Time to Write
• Wonder & The Lyric Essay
• Great Love and Great Suffering: Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography
• 2000 Word Club
• Storyboarding: Creating the Perfect Scaffold
• Brickworks: Writing the Perfect Scene
• Writing Your Memoirs: The Surprise Story of Your Life
• Writing to Make a Difference
• Our Bodies, Our Lives: Memoir for Women
• Stories for Seasoned Citizens
• Creative Writing 102
• WRITING AEROBICS

The Business of Writing

• Power Researching
• Fall Résumé Tune-up
• Writing for Business/Writing for the Real World
• How to Write a Book Proposal
• Submitting Your Short Stories for Publication
• Getting Started as a Freelance Writer
• Basics of Editing and Proofreading
• Writers and Their Websites
• Developing A Writer’s Portfolio
• The State of the Art: Reading & Writing in the Mobile Computing Age

Stage & Screen

• Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
• Whose Class is it Anyway? aka Comedy Improv
• Screenwriting 101

Fiction

• How Do Detectives Really Work? Part I
• How Do Detectives Really Work? Part II Crime Scene Investigation
• Character: An Introduction
• Advanced Fiction
• Writing Writing Lesbian Fiction

Journalism

• The Art of Interviewing

Courses at the Gell Center

• A Weekend with Plato
• Release Your Stress and Find Your Inspiration
• Wine and Words:  “Reading Between the Wines”

Language

• Armamentarium Latinae

Reading Seminars

• Love and Relationships: From Zora Neale Hurston to Octavia Butler...to You!
• A Journey through James Joyce’s Ulysses
• Seven Shakespearean Comedies

Special Topics

• Grammar, Punctuation, Syntax and That Kind of Stuff
• The Tao of Writing

Youth & Teen Classes

• Young Writers’ Circle
• Writing the College Admissions Essay
• Teen Writers’ Circle
• Harry Potter
• Land of Narnia
• Wonderland of Reading

Single-Day Workshops

• Whose Class is it Anyway? aka Comedy Improv
• Power Researching
• Fall Résumé Tune-up
• How to Write a Book Proposal
• Submitting Your Short Stories for Publication
• Getting Started as a Freelance Writer
• Basics of Editing and Proofreading
• Writers and Their Websites
• Developing A Writer’s Portfolio
• Just Who’s Telling This (True) Story, Anyway?
• Storyboarding: Creating the Perfect Scaffold
• Brickworks: Writing the Perfect Scene
• How Do Detectives Really Work? Part I
• How Do Detectives Really Work? Part II Crime Scene Investigation
• Character: An Introduction
• “Married to Amazement”: The Life and Works of Poet Mary Oliver.
• Grammar, Punctuation, Syntax and That Kind of Stuff
• The Tao of Writing
• Release Your Stress and Find Your Inspiration
• Wine and Words:  “Reading Between the Wines”

Details, Details

• How to Register For Workshops
• How to Become a Member of Writers & Books
• The Gell Center of the Finger Lakes