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Summer Writing Classes

Summer 2012 Schedule--Enroll Now for Early Registration Discount

8-week classes on Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Journaling. One-day seminars on topics like: Sketch Comedy Writing, Travel Writing, The Art of the Radio Essay, Sound in Poetry, and more. Register online or download registration form.

In addition to our regular classes, we're offering two weeks of writing classes in June for 5th-6th graders and 7th-8th graders. Details HERE.

 
No Open Hours Memorial Day Weekend
So our volunteers can have the weekend free for travel and other pursuits, WriterHouse will not have Open Hours from May 26-28, 2012. We will reopen on our normal schedule Tuesday May 29.
 
Spring Reading and Open House

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 7:00pm

Brief selections of fiction, essay, and poetry will be presented by writers who have taken classes during the spring session. Meet your fellow writers and get a tour of WriterHouse. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. 

 
First Fridays Art Exhibit - The Narrative Image

WriterHouse is proud to host a First Fridays Art Opening on Friday, June 1, 6-8 PM.  The art exhibit is titled "The Narrative Image" and features photography, painting, and prints by UVA fourth-year students

  • Elisabeth Hogeman
  • Olivia Kiers
  • Martie Kuzzy
  • Cara Linnekohl
  • Margaret Montague

Please join us!  This event is free and open to the public.

Don't despair if you cannot make Friday's event - the show runs May 12 through June 15.

 
Seminar: Travel Writing

Seminar: Travel Writing

Instructor: Jay Kauffmann
Cost: $55 Members | $60 Non-Members
Saturday, June 30, 2012 | 9:00am-1:00pm

The goal of the seminar will be for participants to learn to write compelling and engaging travel narratives (personal essays, articles or memoir pieces) which combine the eye of a journalist with the flair of a story teller. There will be in-class readings (Theroux, Chatwin, Iyer, etc.) and exercises that address pertinent craft issues, and we will explore the essential elements of travel writing, such as sensory imagery, distinctive voice, dramatic arc, scene development, character sketches, and concrete detail. We will also discuss the practical matters of how to submit stories for publication.

Jay Kauffmann holds an MFA from Vermont College and has taught at Randolph College, Vermont College, and Göteborgs Stadsbibliotek. Nominee for Best New American Voices 2009 and the 2010 Pushcart Prize, he has new work out in Storyglossia, The Writer’s Chronicle, Lumina, upstreet, and Mid-American Review.

Meet the Instructor: Jay Kauffmann

Download the Summer 2012 registration form

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Monday and Wednesday, 6-9
Tuesday and Thursday, 10-2
Saturday and Sunday, 2-5

Members are saying...

“WriterHouse has such a strong community, but also open and friendly one - the welcome was warm and immediate. It's just wonderful to find a group of like-minded individuals struggling with the same problems, sharing their triumphs. The writing space has a definite feeling of calm and strength — quiet, but not weak. And if I get stuck, I can always find someone in the kitchen, fighting with a similar problem, and the solidarity alone is often enough to get me through.” —SRV

Our Supporters

WriterHouse activities are partially supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band in the CACF, the Maxwell Fund in the CACF and The Congregation Beth Israel Tzedakah Fund.

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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.  -- Flannery O'Connor
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