Winter 2005 Full Course Listing

Reading Seminars

• A Short Reading Course for Those Who Don’t Read Poetry
• Crime & Punishment
• Philosophy & Literature II: This Time It’s Personal!
• Reading Nicholson Baker

Poetry

• Celebrating Black History Month: African-American Themes in Poetry
• Beginning Poetry
• In Your Own Words: Poetry Workshop
• The Poetry in Our Experience Scrapbook
• Welcome to the Machine: An Introduction to Poetry
• An Introduction to Writing the Narrative Poem
• A Story Well-Versed
• Trying to Rise: Advanced Poetry

Cross-Genre

• Send It!
• The 2,000 Word Club
• Writing for the Internet
• Travel Writing
• Breaking Through That Writer’s Block
• Making Sense of the Sentence
• Writers Groups: Can You Handle the Truth?

Youth Programs

• Basics of Revision & Editing
• Encouraging Young Writers: For Parents & Educators of Children in K–6
• Let’s Write
• Wayside School of Writing
• Teen Slam Team
• Young Writers’ Fiction Club

School Break Programs

• Word on the Street
• Puppets!
• Drama Dream Team

Boutique Éclectique

• Writing Aerobics: Pilates for Your Pen!
• Writing the Labyrinth
• Writing for Personal Growth & Healing
• Writing What the Body/Mind/Spirit Knows: A Weekend Writing & Yoga Retreat

Stage & Screen

• Screenwriting
• Don Juan in Hell: A Reader’s Theatre Experience
• Writing for the Stage: Playwriting Basics
• Writing for Performers

Fiction

• Year-Long Novel Critique Workshop
• Writing and/or Illustrating Children’s Picture Books
• Writing Erotic Fiction
• Writing the Commercial Novel
• Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Publishing But Were Afraid to Ask
• Fiction in a Flash
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing Workshop
• Novel Therapy
• Writing the Short Story

Nonfiction

• Memoir: Finding Meaning in Your Life Story
• A Woman’s Voice: Journal & Memoir
• Honesty in Business Writing
• My Thoughts Exactly: Column Writing for Everyone
• The Art of Copywriting: Newsletters, Business Writing, Advertising, & the Web
• The Literature of Non-Fiction

Features & Favorites

• Encouraging Young Writers: For Parents & Educators of Children in K–6
• Writing What the Body/Mind/Spirit Knows: A Weekend Writing & Yoga Retreat
• Celebrating Black History Month: African-American Themes in Poetry
• Year-Long Novel Critique Workshop
• A Woman’s Voice: Journal & Memoir
• The 2,000 Word Club
• Teen Slam Team
• Writing Aerobics: Pilates for Your Pen!

Single-Day Workshops

• Writing the Labyrinth
• Writing for the Internet
• Writers Groups: Can You Handle the Truth?
• Writing Erotic Fiction
• Writing the Commercial Novel
• Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About Publishing But Were Afraid to Ask
• Fiction in a Flash
• Honesty in Business Writing
• An Introduction to Writing the Narrative Poem
• Encouraging Young Writers: For Parents & Educators of Children in K–6

Workshops at
the Gell Center

• Writing What the Body/Mind/Spirit Knows: A Weekend Writing & Yoga Retreat

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