Creative Writing for Beginners — Summer 2022

Two Sundays from 2 – 4:30 PM in Flourtown, and one Tuesday evening from 7-9:30 PM via Zoom. Choose 1-3.

This inclusive creative writing workshop for beginners focuses on learning how to quiet your internal critic. As a result, you begin to express yourself freely. The structure and approach ensure that everyone in the workshop feels at ease.

Write during the workshop in a small group of creative writing beginners. The facilitator offers prompts to get you started. These may be a few words, an idea, or an image. No previous experience is required, but if you have some, that’s okay too.

The value of a smaller workshop.

With no more than eight people per meeting, this workshop is customized to meet your needs. The enrollment form lets you specify if there are elements of writing you’re particularly interested in learning.

No homework. No criticism. Plenty of encouragement, camaraderie, and fun with writing.

• • Write during workshop time
  • Discover and develop your unique voice
  • Gain confidence in your identity as a writer
  • Create new work or expand on ideas you already have
  • Receive constructive feedback that highlights your strengths

Fiction · Nonfiction · Poetry · Screen & TV Writing · Playwriting · Blogs · Performance Sketches

 

No reading of manuscripts. Manuscript review is available in The Tuesday Night Workshop, The Manuscript Workshop, or via Private Editing Services.

Sundays live in person in Flourtown — one Tuesday via Zoom video conference

Cost = $50 per date — Registration required

Maximum of 8 including the facilitator

• Choose 1-3 dates
• Pick any combination of two in-person Sundays and/or one Tuesday via Zoom
• This is not a sequential workshop, so it doesn’t matter when you start

In-person requirements:

• Proof of vaccination and at least one booster.
• Willingness to sign a form saying you are symptom-free, and a waiver recognizing you are taking a risk by meeting in a group. Masks are worn in the hallways and bathrooms of The Resiliency Center, but not in the workshop space. Clean air circulation and sanitization occur continuously.

Zoom tech requirements:

• • Although we write by hand in an old-fashioned notebook, you will need a computer or laptop with a video camera and audio so that you can be seen and heard. You’ll also need to be in a private space or use headphones/earbuds so that when people read aloud, people in your household won’t be able to hear.
  • Download Zoom from Zoom.us — it’s free for you.

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Where Can I Learn More?

See our Frequently Asked Questions and read writers’ Reviews.

Page updated on 4/15/2022