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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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September 07-21, 2023 

Fred Shafer - Reading Like a Reader - 3 Sessions

September 28, 2023

Dana Kaye - Growing an Engaged Community of Readers

October 05, 2023 

Rebecca Makkai - Can't Go Over It, Can't Go Under It

October 12, 2023

Julia Fine - Landscape and Worldbuilding

October 19, 2023

Susanna Calkins - Red Herrings, Misdirection, and Other Ways to Deceive Your Readers 

October 26, 2023

Goldie Goldbloom - The God Head: Generating rich worlds and characters.

November 02, 2023

Diana Goetsch - ACTUALLY WRITING: The Outer, Inner, and Secret Practice

November 09, 2023

Kelly McMasters - Food and Memory

November 16, 2023

Lori Rader Day - Writing the White Whale

November 30, 2023

Juan Martinez - Dirty Tricks: Five Ways to Jumpstart Your Work

December 07, 2023

Sarah Stern - Discovering Your Poem's True Intention: Inspiration and Revision

December 14, 2023

Publishing Panel

December 21, 2023

Sandra Scofield - The Heart of Narrative: The Scene

January 04, 2024

Nadine Kenney Johnstone - Micro-Memoir (Tiny True Stories)

January 11, 2024

Heather Sellers - How to Write What Scares You (Without Scaring Away Your Readers)

January 18, 2024

Jeannie Vanasco - Tuning the Telling in Memoir

January 25, 2024

Denny Bryce - Writing Dual/Multiple Timelines

February 01, 2024

Mary Robinette Kowal - Unlocking Story Structure Using the MICE Quotient

February 08, 2024

Suzanne Nugent - The Path to Production: Adapting Your Novel for Screen

February 15, 2024

Mary Otis - More Than a Feeling: Emotion in Fiction

February 22, 2024

Brian Turner - The Lyric Nature of Science

February 29, 2024

Kate McKean - All About Literary Agents and Do You Need One? 

March 07, 2024

Steve Almond - How to Craft an Irresistible Narrator

March 14, 2024

Kathleen Rooney - Using Visual Art Techniques to Revolutionize Your Writing

March 21, 2024

Vu Tran - Is It What It Is?: The Bad and the Good In Cliché

March 28, 2024

Michelle Hoover - Discover Your Ending

April 04, 2024

Dipika Mukherjee - Creating New Imagery from Old Memories: Writing about Journeys

April 11, 2024

Amanda Goldblatt - Writing the Now: Literary Response to the Current Moment 

April 18, 2024   

Frances DePontes Peebles - Flashbacks that Propel a Story

April 25, 2024

Christina Clancy - Radical Revision 

May 02, 2024

Mary Anne Mohanraj - Structures that Support Your Writing and Publication

May 09, 2024

Charles Baxter: Dramatic Interventions: The Request Moment

May 16, 2024

Michael Zapata - Choosing Your Realities: Narrative Distance and POV

May 23, 2024

Hollie Smurthwaite – The Alchemy of Chemistry: How to Write a Romantic Thread  

May 30, 2024

Abby Geni – Writing the Short Story Collection

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