Upcoming 2019 Poetry Classes

All Writing Workshops Dallas instructors are professional writers, teachers and editors, and many have taught at major universities and attended top MFA programs across the country. Our instructors are dedicated teachers who have a passion for the craft of writing. All of us believe in community, mentorship, in-depth feedback, and finding a readership beyond the workshop table.

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Poetry Workshop

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October 14 - December 9 | 2019

Blake Kimzey’s 8-week Intermediate Fiction Workshop started tonight! Writers writing!
Write Personal Essay & Memoir with Literary Hub Editor James Tate Hill! Our 8-Week Online Nonfiction Workshop: Writing Memoir & Personal Essay for Publication with James Tate Hill starts on Setpember 9th. The only rule of creative nonfiction is that it must be true, but how do we shape truth into a compelling read? Which parts of the story do we leave out? How do we create a through-line from something as big as a life? By examining the myriad questions faced by writers of nonfiction, this course will help you elevate your own stories, obsessions, and struggles into a cohesive manuscript. Each week we will discuss assigned readings by Mary Karr, Phillip Lopate, and a variety of contemporary authors, focusing on the choices made in crafting experience into art. Class participants will turn in their own writing on two occasions, personal essays or memoir excerpts, and receive feedback from the instructor and fellow classmates. Due to sometimes sensitive subject matter, the tone of workshop discussions will be respectful and open minded. No prior creative nonfiction study or workshop experience is required. CLASS STARTS SEPTEMBER 9TH 3 SPOTS AVAILABLE https://writingworkshopsdallas.com/8-week-online-writing-memoir-and-personal-essay-for-publication
Michael Bourne interviewed our Executive Director, Blake Kimzey, about Writing Workshops Dallas for his piece in the September issue of Poets & Writers Magazine. It has been a joy to have so many talented writers find a home teaching at Writing Workshops Dallas AND to have so many wonderful emerging writers trust us with their work. We're honored to see WWD profiled in this magazine, on newsstands now! #writingworkshopsdallas #literarydallas #writingcommunity
8-Week Online Focused Revision Workshop | Class starts 8/26 Writing the first draft of anything is no small accomplishment. It takes a different mindset and perspective to revise, to dive back into the work and try to see it in a new way. Focused Revision, taught by novelist and short story writer Todd Robert Petersen, is designed for writers looking to take their first draft to the next level. 📖📖📖📖 This course is structured on the idea of a pass, a quick sprint through your work that is focused on specific issues: plot, character, dialogue, language, theme. 📝📝📝📝✅ This course is focused on the revision of prose (fiction or non-fiction). All genres are welcome. Poetry, however, won't work well with this process. During the eight weeks of Focused Revision, students will have two opportunities to workshop pages from their revision passes in a supportive guided environment. These workshops will focus on the questions and issues your revision process is revealing to you. This is an ONLINE class and open to writers of all levels, but students will have to have 10-15 pages of prose ready to go at the start of the course. https://writingworkshopsdallas.com/focused-revision Online Classes Link in BIO! #onlinefictionworkshop #writingworkshopsdallas
Thank you to everyone who came to our Happy Hour at @thewilddetectives tonight! We had a ball! If you missed this one, be sure to join us again the first Tuesday of September. Same time, same place: https://writingworkshopsdallas.com/monthly-happy-hour-at-the-wild-detectives LINK IN BIO 👌 #literarydallas #writingworkshopsdallas #community #wilddetectivesdallas
Thank You, Toni Morrison.
We’re taking applications for our 6-Month Novel Bootcamp with @harpercollinsus novelist Seraphina Nova Glass! Get to THE END of your manuscript this fall. More information and application info here: https://writingworkshopsdallas.com/6-month-novel-bootcamp-with-seraphina-nova-glass #literarydallas #NovelBootcamp #writingworkshopsdallas
One Teen Creative Writing Class left this summer. There are still a few spots for teens to join us next week to build their writing skills and ignite their creativity: https://writingworkshopsdallas.com/teen-summer-session-3 #dfwwordwriters #dallaswriters #teenwriters
Join us for our Happy Hour at The Wild Detectives NEXT Tuesday Night (8/6 at 6PM)! 📖📚 We'll be at Wild Detectives NEXT Tuesday (8/6) from 6PM - 8PM (and probably a little later than that). We'll raffle off Wild Detectives gift certificates, talk shop, and hopefully get you talking with and connected to other writers in Dallas! It is going to be a fun night. RSVP here: https://writingworkshopsdallas.com/monthly-happy-hour-at-the-wild-detectives #literarydallas #wilddetectives #writingworkshopsdallas #happyhour
‪#Dallas #playwrights, what are your plans for 8/7? If the distraction of the day job is stifiling your writing, join @paulkalburgi’s #PlaywrightsToolbox workshop at Writing Workshops Dallas and discover tips & tricks to inspire your work: tinyurl.com/y3we47ch‬