Write With Danette

an all-writing workshop

Wednesdays from 7-9:30 p.m. via Zoom

For beginners to published authors.

Write With Danette focuses on quieting your internal critic to express yourself freely. The facilitator structures the approach to writing and the discussion to ensure everyone in the workshop feels included and at ease.

All Writing Means No Homework

All of the writing and discussion takes place during the 7-9:30 p.m. meeting. Write With Danette ensures you’re fitting writing into your life, but it doesn’t require any additional time.

A workshop for writers of all levels

    • Write during workshop time
    • If you’d like, read your just-finished work out loud
    • If you read aloud, receive positive feedback on your unedited writing
    • Gain confidence in your identity as a writer
    • Create new work or expand existing projects

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

This all-writing workshop emphasizes writing to prompts

    • The prompts are designed to inspire you, to get you started
      • Following the prompts is optional
    • No competition, no ridicule

To ensure quality, enrollment is limited to 12, including the facilitator.

This workshop does not include submitting manuscripts. Manuscript review is available in The Tuesday Night Workshop, The Manuscript Workshop, or via Private Editing Services.

Spring 2026 dates

Choose 1-5 dates. Pick any combination of Wednesdays via Zoom from 7-9:30 PM

    • April 22
    • April 29
    • May 6
    • May 20
    • May 27

This is not a sequential workshop, so it doesn’t matter when you start.

Cost = $49 per meeting night

Choose 4 nights, save 10%

Choose 5 nights, save $20%

    • 1 meeting = $49
    • 2 meetings = $98
    • 3 meetings = $147
    • 4 meetings = $176
    • 5 meetings = $196

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About Danette

Hello. I am Danette Laver, author of the novel Chasing Aces and alumnae of the Philadelphia Writers Workshop. My journey with the Philadelphia Writers Workshop began when I had the outline and a few chapters written for a story I was passionate about but struggled to finish.

Each week in the workshop, several prompts were offered. While I often used them to develop my characters and scenes, it was just as often they took me in unexpected, fresh directions.

Sometimes, I’d glance down at my notebook and think I’d have never written this if I hadn’t been here tonight. After trying out other writing groups, I had finally found a space that fostered creativity and camaraderie, free of convention and critique.

As the demand for workshops has grown beyond what Rachel can facilitate on her own (there are only so many nights in a week!), I am honored to begin leading Write With Danette, an all-writing workshop moderated by the PWW guidelines, where we’ll celebrate the nuggets, the perfect phrase, or the ridiculous pun just as grandly as a fully executed novella. I hope you’ll join me; we are all storytellers!

Read more about Danette here: www.danettelaver.com

 

 

Updated on March 29, 2026