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SUMMARY:REPLAY | Writing Through the Lens: Think Like a Photographer to Craft Compelling Scenes
DESCRIPTION:Struggling with writing scenes or recreating lost memories? Thinking like a photographer can help.\n\n\n\nREPLAY INCLUDES: VIDEO\, CHAT\, PROMPTS\, HANDOUT\, AND TRANSCRIPT   \n\n\n\nNot included in the Season Pass \n\n\n\nImages can be a remarkable tool for creative nonfiction writers. Photographers use vivid prose to describe their work\, and the techniques they use to create inspired\, memorable photos can have the same effect on your writing. \n\n\n\nAs memoirists\, we choose what events and moments belong in our work. Photographers make similar decisions when composing images\, and the elements that make a picture memorable and meaningful are often the result of choices that the casual observer doesn’t even realize the person behind the camera is making. Whether you’re writing a memoir or creative nonfiction\, photographs can be a powerful tool to help you not only tap into what is happening but also show the reader why these scenes are taking place. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we will examine samples of memoir and essay that draw upon photographs to deepen scenes and characters\, and you will learn how to use these practical techniques in your own storytelling. \n\n\n\nRegistrants will receive a handout with prompts and actionable tips. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN to read photographs in order to better understand composition of scenes\n\n\n\nDRAW inspiration from two-dimensional images to “frame” your own scenes\n\n\n\nLEARN how to create compelling prose that draws your reader into your story \n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for creative nonfiction writers who are struggling to make old memories or family tales come to life.\n\n\n\nThe live event happened in November 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrace Hwang Lynch is a storyteller in journalism\, essays\, and photography. Her work can be found on outlets including Tin House\, Catapult\, and NPR. Her food memoir How to Cook Rice: On the Care and Feeding of an Immigrant Family will be published in early 2027 by Regalo Press. Website: www.gracehwanglynch.com \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBecause the replay is delivered instantly upon purchase\, all sales are final. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Artful Intelligence: What the Rise of AI Can Teach Us about Great Writing
DESCRIPTION:In all the hype and paranoia around AI\, it’s still our flawed\, funny\, and felt humanity that brings art into the world.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Nonfiction\, and Poetry \n\n\n\nArtificial Intelligence can’t do what you can do because it doesn’t feel what you feel. Learn to harness those feelings to make original and unforgettable human art.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll explore AI via literature and writing\, with an overview of how chatbots produce “original” works\, trends in publishing and marketing related to the rise of AI\, and what artificial writing can teach us about our own\, human craft.  \n\n\n\nAs part of our investigation\, we’ll study technical aspects of AI to learn how it works and how to detect its usage. And we’ll examine how our own response to the emergence of AI can help us contend with the social\, moral\, and aesthetic challenges posed by advancements in technology.  \n\n\n\nThis webinar will allay your fears over AI taking over the world—or at least taking over the writing world—and putting all of us creative writers out of business. No prior technical knowledge is required—only a passion for reading\, exploring how technology shapes storytelling\, and uncovering how human stories shape technology. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nUNDERSTAND how so-called Artificial Intelligence actually writes\n\n\n\nEXPLORE what AI reveals about writing formulas and clichés to avoid in our own work\n\n\n\nLEARN how to write\, publish\, and stand out in a world beset by emerging technologies\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for beginning and intermediate writers who …\n\n\n\n\nworry about AI and its impacts on their own writing and prospects for publication\n\n\n\nseek to make their own work more original and attention-grabbing\n\n\n\nwant to recognize AI “in the wild” and understand its use as a tool\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJaswinder Bolina’s superpower is translating complicated ideas into conversational\, humorous sessions that students find transformational for their work. Noted for being analytical yet highly approachable\, Jaswinder’s most recent book English as a Second Language and Other Poems (2023) was awarded the 2025 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University. He is author of three previous poetry collections\, The 44th of July (2019)\, Phantom Camera (2013)\, and Carrier Wave (2007)\, and of the essay collection Of Color (2020).  \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/artful-intelligence/
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SUMMARY:SEMINAR | Get Your Book Unstuck: How to Fall Back in Love with Your Manuscript
DESCRIPTION:Reconnect with the energy\, spark\, and joy that compelled you to tell this story in the first place — and discover the strategies to move your manuscript toward publication.\n\n\n\nFor Memoirist \n\n\n\nYou needed to tell this story. There was heat in it—urgency and the conviction that you have something important to say. But somewhere in the months or years of drafting and revising\, that heat got harder to find. Now\, sitting down with the manuscript feels like a chore\, and the work that used to excite you feels like pulling teeth. \n\n\n\nThis is one of the most common and least talked-about challenges in long-form writing: not a craft problem\, but a relationship problem. When revision starts to feel like spinning your wheels rather than making meaningful progress\, resistance builds. Once that resistance takes hold\, the deep\, generative work a draft needs to evolve becomes nearly impossible. \n\n\n\nThis seminar will change that. We’ll explore how to reconnect with the heat that compelled you to write this story\, how to treat revision like play again\, and how to experiment with your material in fresh and exciting ways. You’ll leave the seminar with a renewed relationship to your manuscript and a concrete plan for what comes next. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this interactive three-hour live seminar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER what’s still alive in your manuscript and use those moments as your entry point back into the work\n\n\n\nLEARN to treat revision as exploration rather than correction\, so the process feels generative instead of draining\n\n\n\nEXPLORE concrete strategies for experimenting with structure\, perspective\, and form\, and shake loose new possibilities\n\n\n\nRECONNECT with the heat that compelled you to tell this story and use that energy to move your draft into its next evolution\n\n\n\nLEAVE with renewed excitement about your manuscript and a concrete plan for what to work on next\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis course is ideal for writers who…\n\n\n\n\ndread opening their manuscript instead of looking forward to it\n\n\n\nfeel stuck in a cycle of revision that isn’t moving the work forward\n\n\n\nwant to approach their manuscript differently but aren’t sure what that looks like\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss class? No worries\, replays will be available 3 business days after the event. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR Instructor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA lively and insightful speaker who brings new energy to CRAFT TALKS writers\, Katie Bannon is a writer\, editor\, and educator whose work has appeared in The Rumpus\, ELLE Magazine\, NPR\, Newsweek\, Narratively\, and more. Her memoir manuscript\, which charts her journey as a compulsive hair puller\, was a finalist for the Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize. A graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator\, she holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Emerson College. She is a developmental editor who loves working with nonfiction writers to find the “story” behind the “situation” of their memoirs and essays. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two cats.  \n\n\n\nStudent Testimonials \n\n\n\n“Katie is the best writing instructor I have ever had. Her presentation was impeccable. She provided an abundance of ideas\, details\, examples\, and information. In fact\, the class was overflowing with information. I have nothing but praise for Katie and the class content.”“Katie was an amazing instructor. She explained core concepts with clarity and ease\, provided excellent examples and writing samples\, and created a very supportive learning environment. The class truly exceeded my expectations!” \n\n\n\n“Holy moly\, this was a superb class. Instructor was well-prepared with lots of valuable and well-organized information and ideas. I have already begun applying some of the tools from class to revise—and what a difference it’s making!” \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the class\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. \n\n\n\nPlease keep in mind that no refunds or credits will be issued after class begins. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/get-your-book-unstuck/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Poetry\, Prose\, or Both? Writing and Publishing a Hybrid Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Crossing genres can be an obstacle—or a selling point. Explore the craft of writing and the art of pitching a memoir that wants both poetry and prose.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Poetry\, and Hybrid \n\n\n\nSometimes a moment demands the compression of a poem. Sometimes it needs room to breathe in prose. But what happens when your memoir wants both? In this webinar\, we’ll explore the craft of hybrid memoir—how to recognize when a piece is calling for verse versus essay\, how to let both forms coexist without flattening or repeating yourself\, and how each genre can do work the other can’t.We’ll also tackle the practical challenges of bringing hybrid and multi-genre work to publication: how to structure the manuscript\, how to describe it in a query\, how to find receptive publishers\, and how to talk about your book when it defies easy categorization.Drawing from Brenda’s experience writing and placing Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems (Skinner House Books\, April 2026)\, she’ll share both the creative and publishing lessons learned along the way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN to recognize when a moment\, image\, or memory wants to be a poem or an essay\n\n\n\nGAIN permission to try different forms and genres for the same material\n\n\n\nDISCOVER strategies for letting poetry and prose speak to each other without redundancy\n\n\n\nEXPLORE organizing principles for a hybrid manuscript\n\n\n\nPRACTICE language for describing multi-genre work to agents\, editors\, and readers\n\n\n\nIDENTIFY which presses are most open to unconventional memoir forms\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for…\n\n\n\n\nwriters who enjoy the freedom to explore more than one genre at once (and want to feel better about it!)\n\n\n\nanyone who has wondered: “Is this a poem or is this an essay?”—and suspected the answer might be “yes”\n\n\n\n writers working on a book that feels like “essays” and “memoir” and “maybe poetry” all at once\n\n\n\nanyone who has been told their manuscript is “hard to categorize” or “difficult to shelve”\n\n\n\nthose preparing to query or submit a multi-genre project and unsure how to describe it\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrenda Miller is noted for making form “feel like a gift\, not a constraint” and teaches as “a wise friend who’s read everything and still gets excited about a well-placed line break.” Warm\, practical\, and full of “what ifs\,” Brenda’s sessions are full of the mutual joy of discovery.  \n\n\n\nBrenda Miller’s new hybrid collection\, Love You\, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems\, is just out from Skinner House Books (April 2026). She is the author of six additional essay collections\, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form\, andAn Earlier Life\, winner of the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. She co-authored\, with Holly J. Hughes\, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World\, and\, with Suzanne Paola\, Tell It Slant: Creating\, Refining\, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction\, now in its third edition. She coined the term “Hermit Crab Essay.” Her website is www.brendamillerwriter.com. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/poetry-prose-or-both/
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CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:SEASON PASS | Webinar Subscription Special
DESCRIPTION:Unlock every CRAFT TALKS webinar from July to December 2026 (plus office hours) with one simple pass!\n\n\n\nYour Season Pass includes automatic registration\, live access\, replays\, and follow-up materials for every CRAFT TALKS webinar through December 2026. You’ll also get exclusive office hours with writing coach and editor Allison K Williams—your chance to ask questions\, meet other writers\, and receive feedback on your pages. \n\n\n\nHere’s what that means…\n\n\n\nSeason pass holders are registered for all webinars from July 1 to Dec 30\, 2026—that’s 23 dynamic lectures packed with insights\, practical exercises\, and expert advice. No sign-ups. No stress. Fewer marketing emails. Less worry about missing the next great webinar. \n\n\n\nFor each webinar\, you’ll receive:\n\n\n\n\nLive access to each session where you can ask questions\, join the lively chat\, and take away ideas you can put into action immediately.\n\n\n\nDownloadable materials and follow-ups for 30 days—delivered to your inbox within 3 business days.\n\n\n\n\nPlus\, drop-in office hours with Allison!\n\n\n\nSix hours with writing coach\, editor\, and co-founder of CRAFT TALKS\, Allison K Williams (dates TBD)\, where you get to: \n\n\n\n\nAsk questions about craft\, publishing\, and next steps in your writing life\n\n\n\nLearn from watching live edits on submissions\n\n\n\nReceive personalized feedback on every page submitted\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThroughout the season\, learn from acclaimed teachers and authors on everything from story and structure to publishing and the writing life. *Webinar topics include:\n\n\n\n✍️ Lyrical Writing with Bethany Jarmul🔍 Finding New Avenues\, Finding New Material with Dinty W. Moore🎬 The Art of the Cinematic Close-Up with Ethan Gilsdorf🌿 Nature Writing with Megan Baxter🖼️ Writing the Image+Text Essay with Chelsea Biondolillo📖 Novel Writing Essentials with Allison K Williams📰 Launching and Growing a Substack Newsletter with Becky Tuch🧵 Crafting Successful Braided Memoir with Heather Sellers💡 How Curiosity Fuels Craft with Dinty W. Moore💰 Publishing Possibilities: Dollars and Sense with Kristin Owens🍽️ Food Writing with Grace Hwang Lynch👤 Writing in First-Person: Getting Past “I” with Amy L. Bernstein🚀 Publish Without Gatekeepers with Allison K Williams📝 Literary Short Forms: Prose Poetry\, Flash Fiction\, and Micro Memoir with Heather Sellers🪞 The Art of Reflection in Memoir with Katie Bannon📚 Research Strategies for CNF with Michael Copperman⏰ The Art of Time in Fiction with Sherrie Flick❤️ Finding the Heart of Your Memoir with Laraine Herring✏️ The Art & Craft of Revising Memoir with Dinty W. Moore⚡ Sentencing: Packing Power Inside Every Line with Heather Sellers🌊 The Art of the Braided Essay with Katie Bannon \n\n\n\n*Subject to change \n\n\n\nWant a season of learning\, feedback\, and progress?It’s already on the calendar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can read more about the Season Pass from subscriber Char Wilkins. “As a Writer\, I Should Be Committed: How Community Saved Me.” \n\n\n\nSeason Pass Holders Say…\n\n\n\n“Craft Talks always either add to a skill I have or teach me something about writing I don’t do/haven’t explored yet. The reminders once a week or so to trust your reader and focus your revisions\, etc. are helpful! And I heart Office Hours.” –Jenna N. \n\n\n\n“Just deep thanks to Sharla and Allison for consistently excellent programming\, delivered so professionally\, with rarely a glitch. Plus\, thanks for making it fun.” –Donna C. \n\n\n\n“It’s an intensive MFA program at a phenomenal price!” — Marcy D. \n\n\n\n“I really love having the opportunity to learn from such a varied group of excellent writers and to invest in my own development as a writer.” –Laura C. \n\n\n\n“I was lucky to have my work reviewed by Allison during office hours—a *huge* value for me. I feel more confident in the viability of my writing in the marketplace & more capable of making decisions about publication\, promotion\, platform\, etc.” — Marj H. \n\n\n\n“The talks really stay with me. I spend weeks and sometimes even months reflecting on them.” — Becs T. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Fine Print\n\n\n\n✨ This is a limited opportunity\, and we’re excited about our commitment to you! \n\n\n\n📅 Can’t attend live? No worries! You’ll always get the recording and can download the webinars to watch at your convenience. \n\n\n\n🚫 No refunds after Jul 1st. \n\n\n\n❌ The Season Pass does not include Seminars\, Intensives\, or Workshops or Masterclasses. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/season-pass/
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Crafting Emotion & Imagination: Exploring Lyrical Writing
DESCRIPTION:Learn the secrets to writing gorgeous\, lyrical work that makes editors and readers say\, “Wow!” \n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction\, Fiction\, and PoetryIncluded in the upcoming Season Pass \n\n\n\nDo you want your writing to be beautiful and imaginative while staying true to the emotional moment? Would you like to improve the sound and musicality of your sentences? During this generative session\, we’ll dive deep into techniques and tools you can use to increase the lyricism of your writing\, regardless of genre.  \n\n\n\nFirst\, learn the difference between lyrical and narrative writing and when you may want to use one or the other. Then explore the five key elements of lyrical writing\, with examples from virtuoso writers\, and what makes each one powerful for readers. Finally\, practice applying lyrical techniques to your own writing with a prompt and writing time. You’ll leave with the start of a new draft and additional exercises to explore and develop your writing on your own. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nLEARN the five key elements of lyrical writing\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the differences between lyrical and narrative writing\, and how (and why!) to use both\n\n\n\nPRACTICE suspending or manipulating time in your essays\, stories\, or poems\, along with other lyrical techniques\n\n\n\nDISCOVER strategies to increase the emotional and musical resonance of your writing at the sentence level\n\n\n\nUSE imaginative tools to add layers to your work\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for intermediate writers who want to…\n\n\n\n\nexplore lyrical writing \n\n\n\ndeepen and develop their writing voice\n\n\n\nincrease the musicality and beauty of their prose or poetry \n\n\n\ntap into higher levels of imagination and emotion in their writing\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany Jarmul is an Appalachian writer\, poet\, writing coach\, and enthusiastic\, engaging\, and inspiring workshop instructor. She’s the author of a poetry collection\, Lightning Is a Mother\, and a memoir\, Take Me Home. Her work has been published in more than 100 literary magazines\, including Rattle\, Brevity\, and Chestnut Review. Her writing was selected for Best Spiritual Literature and Best Small Fictions and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nFULL REFUNDS ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | Shake It Loose! Unexpected Prompts and Nudges to Spark “The Muse”
DESCRIPTION:Inspiration is tied to innovation\, and innovation is a deliberate act.\n\n\n\nFor Nonfiction\, Memoir\, and Fiction WritersIncluded in the upcoming Season PassThis webinar will be entirely interactive\, with varied suggestions\, nudges\, and obstructions carefully designed to uncover fertile new directions for your work\, whether you are looking to start something new or trying to regain momentum in your current work-in-progress.\n\n\n\nWell-meaning folks often ask about our “inspiration\,” as if some external force—an angel\, a bluebird\, the Muse—mysteriously slips a brilliant idea into our brain as we sleep\, and all we need do is wake up and write it down. Easy peasy!  \n\n\n\nBut it doesn’t work like that. Inspiration is tied to innovation\, and innovation is a deliberate act. We achieve success by being the ones who jump up from the rut of normal and predictable\, by walking bravely into an unexplored forest of fresh ideas and raw emotions\, and trusting we will find something worth writing about there. \n\n\n\nAnd how do we find these forests of artistic innovation? One of the surest ways is prompts and nudges\, as odd and varied as we can find.  \n\n\n\nThis approach can work wonders. And by the way\, it’s also fun! Bring a pencil or two\, some paper\, your brain\, and a willingness to go in unexpected directions. Shake it up and let’s write! \n\n\n\nCan’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how to shake loose new ideas\, new angles and fresh perspectives\n\n\n\nLEARN the power of odd associations\, mixed signals\, curveballs\, and stretching the muscles of the imagination\n\n\n\nEXPERIENCE prompts and nudges that work to open up neural pathways\, and lubricate the imagination (and memory)\n\n\n\nUNCOVER fertile new directions for your work\n\n\n\nSURPRISE YOURSELF with new writing in new directions\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers at any level who…\n\n\n\n\nworry that they keep writing the same thing or feel stuck in an established comfort zone\n\n\n\nare concerned that they have “run through” all of their good ideas\n\n\n\nfeel stuck on a current project (large or small)\n\n\n\nhave just finished a draft and desperately need a palate-cleanser\n\n\n\nare looking for fresh places to take future projects\n\n\n\nwant to have fun\, surprise themselves\, and take some chances\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of our most popular and beloved presenters\, DINTY W. MOORE\, is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer\, among other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s\, The New York Times Magazine\, Georgia Review\, Kenyon Review\, Southern Review\, Short Reads\, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity\, the journal of flash nonfiction. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\nBefore the replay is sent\, you may request a refund less a $10.00 processing fee. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/shake-it-loose/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR | The Art of the Cinematic Close-Up: Crafting Details that Immerse Readers in Your Story
DESCRIPTION:Learn to use your writerly “lens” to focus on the solitary details that open a narrative universe of fluid\, truthful\, and seamless prose.\n\n\n\nFor Creative Nonfiction and Fiction WritersIncluded in the upcoming Season Pass \n\n\n\nWriters of fiction and nonfiction alike understand: we can’t use ostentatious or flowery language\, nor vague or abstract moments\, if we want to truly grab our readers and immerse them in the world of our story. Learn how to focus your scenes with concrete details\, vivid imagery\, original language\, and apt metaphor that is scaled to the task at hand. \n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, we’ll use the metaphor of photography and cinema to focus our writing lenses on the art of the close-up—the particular\, singular\, and sustained. Looking at writers from Cheryl Strayed to Virginia Woolf\, J.R.R. Tolkien to Zadie Smith\, we’ll examine how to describe physical things and people\, places\, as well as discreet moments in time\, states of high emotion\, and interiority with rigor and specificity. From “close-ups” like a dying moth on a windowsill; the way a drunken father stumbles around the house; the moment you tossed your second hiking boot off the mountaintop; a feeling of foreboding partway through a quest; you’ll discover how to use language beautifully and truthfully to create what John Gardner called a “vivid and continuous” dream in the reader’s imagination.   \n\n\n\nYou’ll leave having written some new passages that you can use in any writing project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this webinar\, you will:\n\n\n\n\nEXPLORE the craft of sustained\, vivid description\n\n\n\nDISCOVER how to manipulate your writerly lens of focus with intention\n\n\n\nLEARN the difference between the particular and specific vs. the vague and abstract\n\n\n\nPRACTICE writing new passages using close-up techniques you can immediately apply to your own work\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is ideal for writers who:\n\n\n\n\nfeel their work is flat or lacking depth\, focus or specificity\n\n\n\nare finding their writing voice\n\n\n\nstruggle with writing description\n\n\n\nwant to move beyond generic imagery and find the singular\, unexpected detail that brings a scene to life\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔All registrants receive the recording. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR PRESENTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sharp\, funny presenter\, Ethan Gilsdorf is a writer\, teacher\, performer\, and a huge nerd. The author of the award-winning memoir Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks\, his work appears in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Esquire\, Wired\, Salon\, O the Oprah Magazine\, Huffington Post\, Brevity\, Electric Literature\, Poetry\, and The Southern Review\, among other publications\, and has been named “Notable” by The Best American Essays.  \n\n\n\nEthan teaches workshops in essay\, creative nonfiction\, and memoir at GrubStreet in Boston\, where he leads the Essay Incubator program\, and at LitArts RI. He is also on the faculty of the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University. At Hampshire College\, he studied filmmaking and creative writing and received an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Louisiana State University. He presented the TEDx talk “Why Dungeons & Dragons is Good for You (In Real Life)” and offers workshops teaching adults\, children\, and organizations how to play Dungeons & Dragons. \n\n\n\nREFUNDS (less a $10 processing fee) ARE AVAILABLE before the replay is sent out. For a refund\, EMAIL us at info@WritingCraft.com. Canceling your Zoom invite will not initiate this process.  \n\n\n\nThere are no refunds after the replay is sent.Questions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/art-of-the-cinematic/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:3-WEEK WORKSHOP | Words That Matter: Writing for Advocacy and Change
DESCRIPTION:Words have the power to inform\, move\, and mobilize. Learn to craft essays that mine your experience while speaking out on important issues\, challenging injustice\, and calling on readers to act.\n\n\n\nOpen to 10 writers only\, working in Creative Nonfiction\, Narrative Nonfiction\, or Personal Essay \n\n\n\nLive On Zoom | Thursdays\, July 23 – August 6\, 2026 | 5-8 pm Eastern \n\n\n\nIn this generative writing workshop\, we’ll explore how the creative nonfiction essay conveys important themes and messages and questions the status quo\, bends a critical eye to social norms\, and brings to light a range of issues that need addressing\, from the small to the big. \n\n\n\nWe’ll explore a variety of essay styles and stories\, from thoughtful commentary to powerfully emotional pieces\, many of which explore difficult\, political\, and important contemporary issues: works rooted in truth but done so with the creative flair of artful formatting and prose. Most importantly\, we’ll practice and write our own advocacy essays. \n\n\n\nIf you’re passionate about speaking out against injustice\, expressing dissent\, and stimulating imagination of a better world\, join us to refine your skills and build your publication record with essays that make a difference. \n\n\n\nIncludes the instructor’s written feedback on your work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOver these three weeks\, you will …\n\n\n\n\nQUESTION creative nonfiction essays to understand how they can convey important themes and messages\n\n\n\nPRACTICE employing craft elements to successfully advocate for issues in a way that emotionally connects with readers\n\n\n\nWORKSHOP one another’s work to provide diverse feedback\, perspectives\, and reactions\n\n\n\nEXPLORE a variety of essay styles and stories featuring difficult\, political\, and important contemporary issues\n\n\n\nGENERATE new writing to develop into powerful essays\n\n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n\nWeek 1: Short writing practice to get into the writing zone; discussion of essay examples distributed and read before class; longer writing sprint with brief on-the-spot reading/feedback\n\n\n\nWeeks 2 and 3: A workshop of up to 1\,000 words for each student; discussion of essay examples distributed and read before class; end with short writing practice to send us off with more ideaFollowing the final session\, the instructor will send written feedback to each student\n\n\n\n\nThis course is for beginning and intermediate writers who …\n\n\n\n\nwant to learn how craft elements create effective messaging\n\n\n\ndesire to use their craft for advocacy purposes\n\n\n\nhave stories to tell or want to speak out on issues they are passionate about\n\n\n\nwant to explore more experimental styles of essay writing\n\n\n\n\nClosed captioning is available. ✔Think you might miss a class? No worries\, replays will be available. ✔ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Shea is an essayist with an MFA and a doctorate in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and is the author of Too Poor to Die: The Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins.  \n\n\n\nAn energetic and encouraging teacher\, Amy focuses on practice-based instruction with time to write\, play\, and close-read examples to stretch your writing skills. Always inclusive\, she loves to provide lots of examples\, so students end up with lots of SWAG (Stories We All Get [to read])!Amy Shea’s work has appeared in The Missouri Review\, Portland Review\, The Massachusetts Review\,  the Journal of Sociology of Health & Illness\, among others. She works as the Writing Program Director for Mount Tamalpais College\, a free community college for the incarcerated people of San Quentin. Learn more about her work at https://amysshea.com. \n\n\n\nTestimonials from past students:\n\n\n\n“Amy Shea’s classroom presentations to my college writing classes were excellent and informative. She was a guest writer in both introductory and advanced writing classes\, and in both cases the students raved afterwards about how helpful her presentations were for them. Her focus on different kinds of research\, writing\, and editing in the context of writing creative nonfiction is useful for writers at all levels. Highly recommended!” –David Buuck\, Academic Director\, Oakland Clemente Course in the Humanities & Assistant Adjunct Professor of English\, Mills College \n\n\n\n“Amy is a wonderful lecturer and educator! She asks great questions that always stimulate lots of discussion and creates a great learning environment for the attendees with her warmth and creativity.” –Justine Juson \n\n\n\n“Amy presented her research and writing practices to my students\, who mostly saw research and writing as exacting hard work that was beyond them but not beyond others. Amy’s descriptions\, sometimes humorous and always instructive\, encouraged my students to think differently\, and by the end of class\, my students felt empowered to explore creativity and research in their own writing practices.” –Jeff Magnin \n\n\n\nTHE FINE PRINT \n\n\n\nWe understand that life can get in the way of your plans. We want you to be able to get the most out of your course\, and our refund policy is designed to balance your need for flexibility with our deadlines and obligations to our teachers. \n\n\n\nBefore the first class\, you may request a refund (less a $25 processing fee).After class begins\, you may request a refund for the remaining value of the course (less a $25 processing fee). \n\n\n\nNo credits or refunds will be available after the 1st class. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nQuestions? Please email Info@writingcraft.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Info\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation
URL:https://writingcraft.com/event/words-that-matter/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshops and Masterclasses
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