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WORKSHOP
SERIES
HOW
TO CHOOSE A MARKET FOR YOUR WRITING
An introductory workshop offering tips and information on choosing
the right editors, publishers and agents for your work. - 1.5 hrs
- $15.00 per participant* - handouts incl.
A
FLASH OF INSIGHT
Strategies to raise that lumbering piece of prose, find lost characters
and lighten that poem to a place where you are happy with the results
- 2 hrs - $25.00 per participant* - handouts incl.
INTENSE
FICTION
Bring a piece of short fiction and prepare to give it an intensive
workout. Working through character, plot, setting, and dialogue,
we will examine your writing and consider how to give it that special
editor-attention getting shine. By the end of the workshop, you
should have a piece of writing that is ready for publication. -
3 hrs. - $40.00 per participant* - handouts incl.
HOW
TO CHOOSE A PUBLISHING OPTION - 1. FICTION - 2. NON-FICTION
There are so many choices out there. You can submit your work to
publishers' agents, to small publishers, to large publishers, use
Print on Demand or form your own publishing company. These publishing
routes are available for both novels and nonfiction books. Bring
your submission package and prepare to make some serious decisions.
All questions answered. Each workshop - 3 hrs. - $40.00 per participant*
- handouts incl.
SUBMISSION
PACKAGES - WHAT TO INCLUDE
Your novel is complete. You have chosen several publishers and/or
agents. What do you send them? How do you arrange your submission
package so that it will be noticed? This workshop helps you to hone
your cover letter, your query letter, your synopsis and your writing
sample. Nonfiction book proposals are also discussed. - 2 hrs -
$25.00 per participant* - handouts incl.
A
SYNOPSIS IN AN HOUR
This short sharp workshop lets you take your notes and whip them
into an attention getting synopsis. This two hour workshop opens
with a discussion of what to include, gives you one to one instructor
input during your writing time and ends with a final discussion
and general questions. - 2 hrs. - $20.00 per participant* - handouts
incl.
TALK
BACK - REPLYING TO YOUR CREATIVE VOICE
This workshop gives participants an opportunity to identify their
creative self, to validate that self in our current society and
to understand the physical and emotional strains that occur when
creative people don't write. This workshop is open to all writers.
- 2hrs - $25.00 per participant* - handouts incl.
MARKETS,
MARKETS, MARKETS,
Access over 250 markets and take an opportunity to learn how to
submit to these markets. Plan to increase your submission rate success.
Open to writers who have never submitted a piece of writing and
to those of us who have been doing it for awhile. - 2hrs. - $40.00
per participant* - handouts incl. [list of markets]
WHAT
DO YOU MEAN?
A writing clinic for writers between the ages of 16 and 25 geared
to introducing you to the mechanics of preparing a piece of writing
to send to an editor, publisher or an agent. Sample markets looking
for your writing included. - 3 hrs. - $15.00 per participant*- handouts
incl.
CREATIVE
DATING
Make a date with your creative self. A workshop that looks at validating
your creative spirit and confirms that writing is a 'real' job.
Offers exercises and tips to keep your creative spirit alive when
your life is too short of time. - 2hrs. - $20.00 per participant*
- handouts incl.
CREATIVE
EXPERIENCE IN FOUND OBJECTS
Kick start your creative development with this workshop. The workshop
explores the 'mind mapping' of the creative process. Open to all
writers and poets. - 1.5 hrs. - $15.00 per participant* - handouts
incl.
Contact
Windshift for Writers to plan a workshop in your area, to confirm
the time, place, date and participant price of a workshop or to
suggest a workshop you would like to attend.
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