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writing family stories workshop sold out

Workshop: Writing Family Stories with Estelle Ford-Williamson

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This workshop is now sold out. Our thanks to everyone who registered in advance. Led by an award-winning memoirist and novelist, this workshop is for those who want to put in writing their cache of family legends or happenings, and for those who want to assist their parents or relatives or friends in doing just that. A great holiday gift for a loved one!

$45

therapeutic journaling workshop

Workshop: Therapeutic Journaling with Sandra E. Johnson

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This interactive writing workshop will highlight how to use therapeutic journaling to become more resilient by transforming traumatic events into opportunities for growth, reframing failures into successes, and changing unhelpful habits into ones that strengthen wellbeing.

$45

elevator pitch workshop

Workshop: Two-Sentence Elevator Pitch with Ann Garvin

Online - ZOOM

In this virtual workshop led by USA Today bestselling novelist and Tall Poppy Writers founder Ann Garvin, you will learn how to get to the very heart of your project and make certain that the story you're working on is compelling and clear. Even the most complicated or quiet of tales can be pitched in such a way that people will sit up and take notice.

$45
Writing Family Stories workshop

Workshop: June 2023 Writing Family Stories with Estelle Ford-Williamson

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Whether your goal is a family-only writing project or maybe something a lot bigger, begin writing and sharing with other writers in this follow-up to the February class. This course will enable you to start (or continue) the process with a goal of completing a project in the fall.

$45

writing workshop interiority

Workshop: Interiority with Amber Wheeler Bacon

Online - ZOOM

In this class, we’ll work on engaging with a character’s thoughts and feelings in ways that move beyond these cliches, using specificity and deepening character. This will be a generative workshop. Using your own characters and their harrowing situations, we’ll look at, discuss and practice Rebecca Makkai’s four techniques to writing interiority: Action, Thought, Specific Physical Interiority and Tangential Thought.

$45

Workshop Writing for your Readers
Event Series Workshop: Writing for Your Readers: A Four-Day Editing Workshop Led by Leslie Rindoks

Workshop: Writing for Your Readers: A Four-Day Editing Workshop Led by Leslie Rindoks

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

In this highly interactive four-day workshop, we’ll reactivate (and even befriend) our inner editors. We’ll examine other writers’ early drafts, try our hand at editing those, and compare our efforts to final, published versions. Instead of worrying where to put commas, we’ll explore where our characters are, what they’re saying and doing, and why.

$2225
Workshop Writing for your Readers
Event Series Workshop: Writing for Your Readers: A Four-Day Editing Workshop Led by Leslie Rindoks

Workshop: Writing for Your Readers: A Four-Day Editing Workshop Led by Leslie Rindoks

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

In this highly interactive four-day workshop, we’ll reactivate (and even befriend) our inner editors. We’ll examine other writers’ early drafts, try our hand at editing those, and compare our efforts to final, published versions. Instead of worrying where to put commas, we’ll explore where our characters are, what they’re saying and doing, and why.

$2225
Workshop Writing for your Readers
Event Series Workshop: Writing for Your Readers: A Four-Day Editing Workshop Led by Leslie Rindoks

Workshop: Writing for Your Readers: A Four-Day Editing Workshop Led by Leslie Rindoks

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

In this highly interactive four-day workshop, we’ll reactivate (and even befriend) our inner editors. We’ll examine other writers’ early drafts, try our hand at editing those, and compare our efforts to final, published versions. Instead of worrying where to put commas, we’ll explore where our characters are, what they’re saying and doing, and why.

$2225
Workshop Writing for your Readers
Event Series Workshop: Writing for Your Readers: A Four-Day Editing Workshop Led by Leslie Rindoks

Workshop: Writing for Your Readers: A Four-Day Editing Workshop Led by Leslie Rindoks

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

In this highly interactive four-day workshop, we’ll reactivate (and even befriend) our inner editors. We’ll examine other writers’ early drafts, try our hand at editing those, and compare our efforts to final, published versions. Instead of worrying where to put commas, we’ll explore where our characters are, what they’re saying and doing, and why.

$2225

workshop Poetic Forms

Workshop: When the “Heat of Feeling Warms the Intellect” Led by Jacquelyn Markham

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

In this generative workshop, we will draw on guidance from poets Denise Levertov and Mary Oliver, as we explore different containers for our experiences. We will move from organic form through free verse to formal patterns, such as the cinquain and rondeau, to see our experiences take shape in new ways.

$45

workshop - write what you know

Workshop: Fiction Writing Led by Scott Gould

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

This course is designed to 1) discover something tucked away in your memory that’s story-worthy, and 2) start telling some lies about it.

$40

Editing Basics workshop

Workshop: Editing Basics for Authors, Led by Leslie Rindoks

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

In this workshop, participants will come to love their inner editors and learn that editing can be fun. We’ll begin by looking first at other writers’ work, then move on to participants’ work.

$40
workshop - linked poetry

Workshop: Linked Poetry: Traditional and New Approaches

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

Linked Poetry: Traditional and New Approaches is a poetry workshop for writers of all levels and ages who are looking to collaborate! We will begin with haiku writing exercises and build different styles of linked poems step by step. It is a highly interactive, hands-on workshop. Come with a writing partner or on your own.

$40

workshop Foodways in Poetry

Workshop: Foodways in Poetry Led by Jennifer Bartell Boykin

Pat Conroy Literary Center 601 Bladen Street, Beaufort, SC, United States

In this workshop, we will explore the connections between food, memory, and poetry. Come with 1-2 dishes and memories associated with them in mind. If you have a family recipe you’d like to explore, bring that too.

$40

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