Past Classes and Seminars
Instructor: Mollie Cox Bryan
Cost: $55 Members | $60 Non-Members
Saturday, November 10, 2012 | 9:00am-1:00pm
Learn how to plan, propose, and write your own cookbook. This class will cover everything from writing recipe head notes and listing your ingredients, to writing proposals and defining your topic. We will also discuss resources, building platform, and cookbook publishing trends.
Instructor: John Most
Cost: $180 Members | $200 Non-Members
8 Tuesdays, April 02-May 21, 2013 | 6:30-9:00pm
We will read, write, and discuss poems in order to refine what makes our poems poetic. We will look at poems and poets that have influenced our own writing and invent writing experiments built upon rewriting, memories, and diction. This class is designed to be flexible, so what’s best for the class comes first. Each student will have the opportunity to meet with the instructor individually as well as receive a written response to their poems.
Summer Fiction Workshop: Deepening and Refining Our Fiction
Instructor: Hilary Jerrill Steinitz
Time: Monday evenings, June 23-August 11, 2008, 6-8:30pm
Location: 508 Dale Ave., Charlottesville, Va.
Fee: $200
A writing workshop is a community of sorts, one built on trust, respect, sensitivity, and honesty. In this class, designed for people with previous writing and workshop experience, we will focus on reading one another’s fiction with precision and an eye toward constructive feedback. Student work as well as readings of short published works will provide a springboard for discussions of the elements of literary craft; writing exercises will help us to access the imaginative material from which our work grows. Topics of discussion may include: overcoming obstacles to our writing, revising creatively, and preparing our work for publication.
Instructor: Bethany Joy Carlson
Cost: $180 Members | $200 Non-Members
8 Wednesdays, April 03-May 22, 2013 | 6:30-9:00pm
Learn how to turn your manuscript into a market-ready eBook. Through instruction and workshops this course also covers promoting your eBook through familiar websites like Amazon, B&N, iTunes, Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads, as well as your own website and blog. Suitable for authors of short stories, poetry, or full-length novels. Bring a manuscript, your Mac or Windows laptop/tablet, and your sense of adventure for the Wild West of publishing. Learn to approach your work like a CEO.
Virginia Festival of the Book Seminar
Writing What We Know, for Love and Money
Instructor: Erika Dreifus
Cost: $45 Members | $50 Non-Members
Friday, March 23, 2012 | 9:30 am-noon
This session will provide an overview of the varied opportunities that exist for writers to transform their own knowledge and interests into freelance bylines.
Although we'll use a shared pursuit--writing itself--as a starting-point, we'll also discuss how to incorporate participants' own professional and avocational expertise into a freelance writing practice. We'll cover basic freelancing how-tos and conserve plenty of time for your questions.
Erika Dreifus is a contributing editor for The Writer. Her freelance articles, essays, and book reviews have appeared in dozens of publications, including Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Jewish Ideas Daily, and Writer's Digest. Please visit www.erikadreifus.com to learn more about Erika and her work.
NOTE: This seminar is not eligible for early registration discount.
