Workshops
Open Road Writing offers workshops for beginning and intermediate writers and for both adults and teens.
Beginning Writer’s Workshop
This four-week workshop keeps the writer as the focus. Have you wanted to write fiction or creative non-fiction, but don’t know how to start? In each two-hour session, students will learn about key craft elements such as plot, setting, and character by discussing excellent examples of each. But writers write, right? Each session will include short writing exercises and longer take-home exercises to be shared and discussed the following week. By the end of the course, each writer will have the seeds of a new prose piece and a strong sense of direction for it.
Intermediate Writer’s Workshop
Writing can be a lonely business, which is why Open Road Writing is committed to creating writing community. A sure-fire way to improve your writing is to share it within a nurturing community. Writers with a short story or creative non-fiction piece of 20 pages or less will submit their work-in-progress to workshop members. Over the six-week session, each piece will be critiqued following a format designed to help the writer see what is working and what needs improvement while providing the encouragement a strong writing community generates. Stuck on an ending? Uncertain about setting? Bring your questions to the workshop to focus your critique. Craft elements and additional readings will be discussed. Each writer will leave the workshop with a concrete revision plan in hand.
Teen Workshops
It’s never too early to learn the craft of writing. This four-week workshop makes writing fiction and creative non-fiction fun and offers teens a safe environment to explore their creativity. Students will learn about plot, character, setting, description, and other craft elements and have ample opportunity to write and share their work.
