Winter 2008 Full Course Listing

Reading Seminars

• Make The Stand: Stephen King Reading Study
• Plato on Love and Friendship: A Close Reading of Symposium and Lysis
• Treasure Island

Poetry

• Frog Jumps In: Haiku
• The Poem as Story: Writing the Lyric Narrative
• The Right Madness: A Course for New Voices in Poetry
• The Goat Path Up the Night Mountain: An Intermediate Course in Poetry
• Writing Nature Poetry: Tuning in to the Untamed 
• The Prose Poem: The Cast Iron Aeroplane
• Stone by Stone: Assembling a Poetry Manuscript

Creative Writing

• Getting Started in Children’s Books—Part I
• Getting Started in Children’s Books—Part II
• Writing in First Person Unfamiliar
• When Bad Writing Happens to Good People: The Cure for Limping Prose
• The Awakening Writer Enters Spring
• Writing for Personal Growth and Healing

Special Topics

• Storytelling Works!
• Writing the Labyrinth
• Discovering Your Truth

Salons

• Open History Reading Group
• WRITING AEROBICS

Stage & Screen

• Screenwriting for the New Millennium
• Alternative Playwrights and Performance Workshop
• Acting 102 for Playwrights

Fiction

• Advanced Fiction
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop
• “Shut up and drive,” she said: A Dialogue Workshop.
• Storyboarding for Fiction Writers 
• Get Shorty!
• Confessing for Cash
• Rewriting the Novel in a Year
• The Year-Long Novel Critique Workshop

Creative Nonfiction

• Memoir for Everyone
• The Living, Breathing Memoir

Journalism

• Magazine Writing
• Introduction to News Writing

Single-Day Workshops

• Query Letters That Open Doors
• Paths to Publication
• The Living, Breathing Memoir
• Getting Started in Children’s Books—Part I
• Getting Started in Children’s Books—Part II
• The Awakening Writer Enters Spring
• Storyboarding for Fiction Writers 
• Frog Jumps In: Haiku
• The Poem as Story: Writing the Lyric Narrative
• Writing Nature Poetry: Tuning in to the Untamed 
• Writing the Labyrinth

The Business of Writing

• Query Letters That Open Doors
• Grammar 101 for Business
• Writing the Business Report and Proposal
• Digital Rhetoric
• Paths to Publication
• Basics of Proofreading and Editing
• Getting Started as a Freelance Writer

Details, Details

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