Off Campus Writers' Workshop

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Join now! For just $40 a year, your membership in Off Campus Writers Workshop extends to August 30, 2021 and brings you weekly information and inspiration from the best writers and affiliated professionals in the literary community. We follow the academic calendar, with sessions running most Thursdays from September through the end of May. Your membership entitles you to:

reduced rates for lectures
opportunities for manuscript critiques by speakers (using our manuscript submission guidelines)
build your writing network
join a fun, interesting, skill-building committee
become a member of the non-profit OCWW Board to help steer the oldest ongoing and most successful writing group in the U.S.
ability to check out books from our extensive lending library
share information about your publications and speaking events with other members

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Friend of OCWW - $300.00 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: June 1st No automatically recurring payments For just $300 a year, your membership in Off Campus Writers Workshop includes admission to weekly sessions that provide information and inspiration from the best writers and affiliated professionals in the publishing community. Your membership entitles you to:

• admission to all lectures
• opportunities for manuscript critiques by speakers (using our manuscript submission guidelines)
• the ability to contribute to and receive the terrific OCWW newsletter throughout the year
build your writing network
• attend the annual holiday party
• join a fun, interesting, skill-building committee
• become a member of the non-profit OCWW Board to help steer the oldest ongoing and most successful writing group in the U.S.
• the ability to check out books from our extensive lending library.
• three passes for your guests to attend free of charge.
Join or renew today!Membership plus discounted price for all session.

OCWW General Membership 2020-2021 - $40.00 (USD) Subscription period: 1 year, on: June 1st No automatically recurring payments For just $35 a year, your membership in Off Campus Writers Workshop brings you weekly information and inspiration from the best writers and affiliated professionals in the publishing community. Your membership entitles you to:

• reduced rates for lectures
• opportunities for manuscript critiques by speakers (using our manuscript submission guidelines)
• the ability to contribute to and receive the terrific OCWW newsletter throughout the year
build your writing network
• attend the annual holiday party
• join a fun, interesting, skill-building committee
• become a member of the non-profit OCWW Board to help steer the oldest ongoing and most successful writing group in the U.S.
• the ability to check out books from our extensive lending library.

Join or renew today!

Off-Campus Writers' Workshop “Reading Like A Writer” Summer Series Program

Summer's here and OCWW is offering monthly sessions of its “Reading Like A Writer” Summer Series Program! Dates and times are: June 18, July 23, & August 20 — from 11 am to 1:30 pm.

Our first session kicks off soon! We'll be reading and talking about George Saunders' "The Red Bow," a wonderful example of 1st-person narration, told mostly in stream-of-consciousness mode.

Please sign up for individual—or all three—sessions by emailing OCWWSummerSeries@gmail.com and telling us which session(s) you would like to attend. These online Zoom meetings are free, but participants must be current in their OCWW membership for the 2020-2021 season.

Each session focuses on a short story by a well-known writer. Round-table talks are led by a moderator to examine each writer's technique utilizing critique methods from Francine Prose's Reading Like a Writer. Participants may offer live comments via the open-mike discussion, as well as submit comments &/or questions in the chat box.

We will look at how these writers solve aesthetic problems &/or elevate elements of their craft to enhance their work so that we can gain greater insight into our own writing process. So, whether you're working in a specific genre, literary fiction, creative non-fiction, or even memoir, these talks will touch on issues you've faced.

Here are the scheduled stories:

June 18, George Saunders’ “The Red Bow,” facilitated by Peter Hoppock;

July 23, Katherine Mansfield’s “A Dill Pickle,” facilitated by Judy Panko Reis; and

August 20, Alice Munro’s “Passion,” facilitated by Aurelia Nichols.

If you cannot attend, sessions will be recorded and the link sent to those who registered.

Hope to see you soon on Zoom!