The Write Life

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Francis College campus in Brooklyn, New York, to deliver a talk about their work or teach a mini fiction workshop to St. For young writers ages 13-18, these cool contests also serve as mini workshops. Each year, it opens submissions for pieces in four genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and prose poetry.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Learning about the art of creative writing in a creative environment requires a combination of planned social activities and a special writing group workshop designed to hone your writing skills. Rekindle Retreat — Juneau, Alaska The Rekindle Retreat is a writing retreat hosted by the Lighthouse Writer’syou’ll Workshop.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 24, 2012

This guest post is by Harry Bingham of Writers’ Workshop. The joy of hyperlinks means that you don’t even have to slow your prose down with reporting those examples: you can just point to them and move on. He also runs the Writers’ Workshop which offers help with all aspects of writing a book. Most blog posts are dull.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2024

I had wanted to get into prose poetry and brought three books with me on the subject…and touched none of them. There will be daily panels, talks, workshops, classes, and group meals with participants and instructors. I let that bucket go, and I let myself be okay with that. Notice the little things and capture the insights.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you’re not, no amount of classes or workshops will change that in a fundamental way. This doesn’t mean that because you have the internal drive to write but haven’t pumped out profound prose that you “aren’t a writer.” Here’s a controversial opinion: Writers are born, not made. You heard me right. Let me unpack that.

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Jane Friedman

AUGUST 30, 2023

Close reading versus reading for enjoyment As a former school librarian, I have spent hours in workshops about the different stages of reading enjoyment. Using language well is not the purple prose of overwriting, but the true beauty of choosing just the right word for just the right sentence—conveying meaning on more than one level.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

And for those moments when you’re uncertain about your prose, grammar and style checkers, such as Grammarly and Hemingway Editor , stand ready to polish your words, ensuring your initial drafts mirror your vision closely. Beyond the act of penning down tales, immerse yourself in workshops, webinars, and writers’ retreats.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Then I went on to the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop to do a graduate degree MFA in fiction, poetry, and also, literary translation. Thanks to the literary translation, I was able to get a Fulbright grant to Italy to participate in a translation workshop, and I managed to stay on here. I've also been teaching.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

So if a detail isn't doing something, if it doesn't carry some spark of energy that's going to kind of move forward in the prose, then it is our obligation as the curators of our own words to weed it out. I was leading a creative writing workshop during COVID, and Christine was one of the members of it. There was about 10 of us.

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