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Off Campus Writers' Workshop - OCWW


PLEASE NOTE: Workshops are in Central time. All sessions are recorded and available to view for the week following the session; links to the recordings are e-mailed to all registrants. It's not necessary to notify us if you wish to change your  attendance to either REMOTE or ONSITE; all registrants receive both the link to the session and the link to the recording.



PAST SEASON'S WORKSHOPS  
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19-Sep-24 Fred Shafer - The Habit of Learning: 3 SESSIONS
26-Sep-24 Vu Tran - The Imperfect Lens Of Narrative Point Of View
10-Oct-24 Peter Orner - Creating Living, Breathing Characters
17-Oct-24 Rebecca Makkai - Why Are You Making This So Damn Hard? On Complexity and Simplicity
24-Oct-24 Mary Ruth Clarke - Drama: A Collaborative Artform
31-Oct-24 Christina Clancy - Mistakes
7-Nov-24 Diana Goetsch - Working Against Your Drift
14-Nov-24 Catherine Barnett - Syntax and Improvisation
5-Dec-24 Rachel Swearingen - Managing Groups of Characters in a Single Scene or Story
12-Dec-24 Steve Almond - All the Secrets of Plot
19-Dec-24 Seema Reza - The Ritual of Discovery in Non-Fiction
9-Jan-25 Nadine Kenney Johnstone - Nonlinear: A Straightforward Approach to Complex Structures
16-Jan-25 Joseph Scapellato - Language Workout
23-Jan-25 Jeannie Vanasco - Finding Form(s)
30-Jan-25 Michelle Hoover - Saving the Saggy Middle
6-Feb-25 Sarah Stone - Reliable/Unreliable Narrators (and Characters)
13-Feb-25 Adam Vines - Unorthodox Approaches to Ekphrasis
20-Feb-25 Robert Anthony Siegel - Making Your Characters Physically Present on the Page: A Multigenre Craft Talk
27-Feb-25 Mary Kay Zuravleff - Building Literary Characters
6-Mar-25 Sarah Stern - The Prose Poem: A Perfect Contradiction
13-Mar-25 Juan Martinez - Fast Talk: Four Easy Ways to Make Dialogue Pop
20-Mar-25 Audrey Niffenegger - Writing a Sequel
27-Mar-25 Lori Rader-Day - Popular Fiction: Character and Story
3-Apr-25 Taylor Byas - The Architecture of the Sestina
10-Apr-25 Kathleen Rooney - Now I Know My ABCs: Using the Abecedarian Form to Transform a Project
17-Apr-25 Frances de Pontes Peebles - The Shape of a Story: What is Plot and How do We Write It?
24-Apr-25 Goldie Goldbloom - Going Deep: How to Achieve Interiority
1-May-25 Steve Trumpeter - The Best American Short Stories: Learning from the BASS Anthology Winners
8-May-25 Heather Sellers - Micro Memoir: True Stories in Tight Packages
15-May-25 Megan Stielstra - Let People Carry It: Publishing as Practice
22-May-25 Abby Geni - Writing a Novel-in-Stories
29-May-25 Magazine and Journal Editor Panel: Christine Maul Rice, Kira Tucker, John McCarthy, Laura Joyce Hubbard
5-Jun-25 Michael Zapata - Make a Mess


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