Winter 2009 Full Course Listing

Reading Seminars

• Dostoevsky’s The Idiot
• Reading Tolkien’s The Silmarillion
• It’s Perfect! Reading and Writing Utopias
• What Would Jane Austen Do?

Poetry

• Stone by Stone: Assembling a Poetry Manuscript
• Focus on the Line Break
• The Prose Poem: The Cast Iron Aeroplane
• Resurrecting the Romans
• Like Honey on Cornbread (the Oral Interpretation of Poetry)
• The Right Madness: A Course for New Voices in Poetry
• Finding Your Own Words: A Poetry Workshop

Creative Writing

• Writing to Change Consciousness
• 2000 Word Club

Senior Classes

• 2000 Word Club
• Recollections of My Family: Writing Down Oral History
• Writing Local History
• Writing Your Memoirs: The Surprise Story of Your Life
• Leaving the Legacy of Your Heart
• Finding Your Own Words: A Poetry Workshop

Special Topics

• Discovering Your Truth
• The Great Mystery: Storytelling, Literacy & Images of Change
• Lives & Legacies: Searching for the Feminine Story, a Workshop & Dialogue for Women
• WRITING AEROBICS
• Special Courses at Rivers Run

Stage & Screen

• Enter Stage Write for Intermediates and Advanced
• Acting 101 for Playwrights

Fiction

• Crash Testing the Novel
• Advanced Fiction A
• “Shut up and drive,” she said: A Dialogue Workshop
• Writing Sex Scenes
• Book Done Yet?
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop
• Fiction in a Flash: or How to Write War and Peacein Three Paragraphs
• Storyboarding for Fiction Writers
• Beginning (and Intermediate) Story Writing

Creative Nonfiction

• Recollections of My Family: Writing Down Oral History
• Literary Travel Writing
• Writing Local History
• Writing Your Memoirs: The Surprise Story of Your Life
• Writing Your Memoirs: The Surprise Story of Your Life (session 2)
• Leaving the Legacy of Your Heart
• The Personal Essay

Journalism

• Magazine Writing
• Interviewing Basics

Single-Day Workshops

• Paths to Publication
• Query Letters That Open Doors
• The Synopsis: Telling It All, Telling It Right
• Basics of Proofreading and Editing
• Launching Your Freelance Editorial Business
• Websites for Writers
• “Shut up and drive,” she said: A Dialogue Workshop
• Book Done Yet?
• Storyboarding for Fiction Writers
• Focus on the Line Break
• The Great Mystery: Storytelling, Literacy & Images of Change

The Business of Writing

• How to Write a Successful Press Release and Pitch Letter
• Paths to Publication
• Query Letters That Open Doors
• The Synopsis: Telling It All, Telling It Right
• Basics of Proofreading and Editing
• Launching Your Freelance Editorial Business
• Websites for Writers

Details, Details

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