UPCOMING EVENTS
Writers' League of Texas - Summer Writing Retreat
July 14-July 19, Kerrville, Texas
"Setting the Stage for Your Next Fiction Project: Generation and Exploration"
Monday through Friday, July 15-19: 9:00am to 12pm (class instruction), 1pm to 4 pm (writing time)
Have you been thinking about a new writing project but aren’t sure where to begin? Do you have big ideas but become overwhelmed with all that needs to be done? In this class, participants will dive into their ideas, explore the possibilities, and emerge with a game plan and a set of writings under their belt that will set the stage for making meaningful progress. Through lecture, writing exercises, and craft discussion, the class will look at the key elements to crafting a story - including characters, settings, and primary tensions - that make for compelling fiction.
All class participants will have a 20-minute one-on-one consultation with the instructor during the retreat and will have the opportunity to share a selection from their work in progress with the instructor ahead of the retreat. Details on the consultation and instructions for submitting material will be shared with registrants in May.
This class is appropriate for both short story and novel writers.
For registration information, click here.
Monday through Friday, July 15-19: 9:00am to 12pm (class instruction), 1pm to 4 pm (writing time)
Have you been thinking about a new writing project but aren’t sure where to begin? Do you have big ideas but become overwhelmed with all that needs to be done? In this class, participants will dive into their ideas, explore the possibilities, and emerge with a game plan and a set of writings under their belt that will set the stage for making meaningful progress. Through lecture, writing exercises, and craft discussion, the class will look at the key elements to crafting a story - including characters, settings, and primary tensions - that make for compelling fiction.
All class participants will have a 20-minute one-on-one consultation with the instructor during the retreat and will have the opportunity to share a selection from their work in progress with the instructor ahead of the retreat. Details on the consultation and instructions for submitting material will be shared with registrants in May.
This class is appropriate for both short story and novel writers.
For registration information, click here.
Mendocino Coast Writers' Conferencemcwc.org/
August 1-3, 2019
EMERGING WRITERS’ workshop: The Next Level
For many of us, the writing life means accepting that we learn and plateau, learn and plateau. If this your current experience, then this workshop is for you. We will broaden our writers’ toolkits to grow and deepen our work, and we’ll have a clearer sense of how to take our writing to the next level. In this highly interactive session, we will discuss ways to close the gap between ability and aspiration, cultivate a more playful relationship to process, see current work through new lenses, and build community. Format will include peer critique, writing exercises, and craft discussion.
For registration information, click here.
For many of us, the writing life means accepting that we learn and plateau, learn and plateau. If this your current experience, then this workshop is for you. We will broaden our writers’ toolkits to grow and deepen our work, and we’ll have a clearer sense of how to take our writing to the next level. In this highly interactive session, we will discuss ways to close the gap between ability and aspiration, cultivate a more playful relationship to process, see current work through new lenses, and build community. Format will include peer critique, writing exercises, and craft discussion.
For registration information, click here.
PAST EVENTS
East Austin Studio Tours
This show also features poetry and prose by literary writers on the theme of interconnectedness. Writers include Lize Burr, Dreux Carpenter, Desiree Evans, Charlotte Gullick, Donna Johnson, Emmy Pérez, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rose Smith, Robin Storey Dunn, Natalia Sylvester and Kirk Wilson.
What: Karrie Hovey: Endangered / In Danger
Where: Prizer Arts & Letters, 2023 E. Cesar Chavez St.
When: Nov. 10-11 & Nov. 17-18, 11am to 6pm
This show also features poetry and prose by literary writers on the theme of interconnectedness. Writers include Lize Burr, Dreux Carpenter, Desiree Evans, Charlotte Gullick, Donna Johnson, Emmy Pérez, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rose Smith, Robin Storey Dunn, Natalia Sylvester and Kirk Wilson.
What: Karrie Hovey: Endangered / In Danger
Where: Prizer Arts & Letters, 2023 E. Cesar Chavez St.
When: Nov. 10-11 & Nov. 17-18, 11am to 6pm
"Minor Characters, Major Insights: Creating a More Compelling Narrative with Secondary Characters" - ONLINE
October 16, 6:30-9:30
Students will examine how an understanding of the conflicting desires, fates, and vulnerabilities of secondary characters can ratchet up and refine the overall story tension, whether for the novel, the memoir, or short fiction.
October 16, 6:30-9:30
Students will examine how an understanding of the conflicting desires, fates, and vulnerabilities of secondary characters can ratchet up and refine the overall story tension, whether for the novel, the memoir, or short fiction.
"Developing Your Perspective in Memoir"
Saturday, November 3, 2018
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
St. Edward's University, Austin, TX
Saturday, November 3, 2018
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
St. Edward's University, Austin, TX
Featured Reader
Austin Community College's Literary Coffeehouse
Monday, September 10, 7 pm
MALVERN BOOKS, 613 W 29th St, Austin, TX 78705
Austin Community College's Literary Coffeehouse
Monday, September 10, 7 pm
MALVERN BOOKS, 613 W 29th St, Austin, TX 78705
Exploring Constraints and Creativity: Shifting the Narrative
Saturday, September 22, 2:45-4:00 pm
Limitations are everywhere, and they often feel like barriers. This workshop will dive into the power of embracing limitations as a source of creativity and inspiration. We will play with divergent and convergent thinking, learn to toggle between them, and see limitations in a new light.
This session is part of Creatives Meet Business Experience
Saturday, September 22, 2:45-4:00 pm
Limitations are everywhere, and they often feel like barriers. This workshop will dive into the power of embracing limitations as a source of creativity and inspiration. We will play with divergent and convergent thinking, learn to toggle between them, and see limitations in a new light.
This session is part of Creatives Meet Business Experience
Texas Writes Program at the Kaufman Public Library
SATURDAY, September 29, 2018
Join Charlotte for a discussion about craft.
SATURDAY, September 29, 2018
Join Charlotte for a discussion about craft.
Writers' League of Texas - Summer Writing Retreat
July 29-August 3, Nacogdoches, Texas
The Defined Draft - Turning What You Have into What You Need
Once we have a certain critical mass of material in our fiction, we reach a point where we must ask hard questions of ourselves: What more is needed? What needs to go? How much of this draft was necessary for me to write in order to get to know the story but isn’t actually part of the streamlined narrative?
July 29-August 3, Nacogdoches, Texas
The Defined Draft - Turning What You Have into What You Need
Once we have a certain critical mass of material in our fiction, we reach a point where we must ask hard questions of ourselves: What more is needed? What needs to go? How much of this draft was necessary for me to write in order to get to know the story but isn’t actually part of the streamlined narrative?
One Page Salon
Tuesday, June 5, 7:30pm
Featured Readers: Meg Gardiner, Chaitali Sen, Christina Soontornvat & Charlotte Gullick
Tuesday, June 5, 7:30pm
Featured Readers: Meg Gardiner, Chaitali Sen, Christina Soontornvat & Charlotte Gullick
PASTORAL WRITING FOR PUBLIC LIFE
In partnership with the Collegeville Institute
Monday, May 14, 4:00 pm to noon Friday, May 17
AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
100 E. 27th Street, Austin, Texas 78705
In partnership with the Collegeville Institute
Monday, May 14, 4:00 pm to noon Friday, May 17
AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
100 E. 27th Street, Austin, Texas 78705
ONLINE! Better Prose Through Poetry: Using Rhythm, Repetition
and Other Poetic Tools in Your Writing
May 9, 2018, 6:30-9:30 pm
Texas Writes Program at the Penitas Public Library
1PM | SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2018
Join Charlotte and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho for an afternoon discussion about craft.
1PM | SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2018
Join Charlotte and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho for an afternoon discussion about craft.
Conference Keynote: “The Power of Storytelling”
Learn All the Time Conference
Saturday, March 3rd, 2018
Honing the Spark and Mapping Out Your Revision
Saturday, December 9
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
St. Edward's University, Trustee Hall 303, 3001 S. Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78704
As writers revise, it's useful to create a roadmap for what is needed to revise a current book-length draft into an engaging manuscript.
Saturday, December 9
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
St. Edward's University, Trustee Hall 303, 3001 S. Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78704
As writers revise, it's useful to create a roadmap for what is needed to revise a current book-length draft into an engaging manuscript.
Character Writing Workshop as part of the Austin Public Library's
NaNoWriMo Events
Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 6 pm
Learn the art of the craft from published authors.
NaNoWriMo Events
Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 6 pm
Learn the art of the craft from published authors.
Writing Workshop as part of the Austin Public Library's
NaNoWriMo Events
Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 6 pm
Learn the art of the craft from published authors.
NaNoWriMo Events
Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 6 pm
Learn the art of the craft from published authors.
Texas Book Festival Moderator: Sunday, November 5, 2017
Time: 11:00-11:45 PM, Session Location: Capitol Extension 1.016
Authors: Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Barbara Gonzalez Cigarroa, Carolyn Osborn
Stories of Family, Stories of Self
Time: 11:00-11:45 PM, Session Location: Capitol Extension 1.016
Authors: Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Barbara Gonzalez Cigarroa, Carolyn Osborn
Stories of Family, Stories of Self
Texas Writes Program at the Lubbock Library
Saturday, September 30, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Free and open to the public
Join Charlotte and Donna Johnson for an afternoon discussion about craft.
Charlotte will discuss "A Character for All Seasons: Bringing a Story to Life in Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall"
Saturday, September 30, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Free and open to the public
Join Charlotte and Donna Johnson for an afternoon discussion about craft.
Charlotte will discuss "A Character for All Seasons: Bringing a Story to Life in Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall"
IN THE VENN: WHERE STORY, CREATIVITY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERSECT
CREATIVES MEET BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Friday, September 15th, 1:15 to 2:45 PM
CREATIVES MEET BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
Friday, September 15th, 1:15 to 2:45 PM
PASTORAL WRITING FOR PUBLIC LIFE
In partnership with the Collegeville Institute
Monday, May 8, 4:00 pm to noon Friday, May 12
AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
100 E. 27th Street, Austin, Texas 78705
In partnership with the Collegeville Institute
Monday, May 8, 4:00 pm to noon Friday, May 12
AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
100 E. 27th Street, Austin, Texas 78705
Reading with David Hicks and Natalia Sylvester
Tuesday, May 9, 7:00 pm
MALVERN BOOKS, 613 W 29th St, Austin, TX 78705
Join us for an evening of fiction!
Tuesday, May 9, 7:00 pm
MALVERN BOOKS, 613 W 29th St, Austin, TX 78705
Join us for an evening of fiction!
ONLINE! Better Prose Through Poetry: Using Rhythm, Repetition
and Other Poetic Tools in Your Writing
February 22, 2017, 6:30-9:30 pm
Poetry's economy of language and use of powerful images offers creative, succinct points of divergence for writers of all genres. This workshop will focus on specific poetic tools such as rhythm, repetition and alliteration to seed, deepen, and refine new and in-progress writing. We will study 3-5 poems and essays that engage poetic techniques and generate new material to incorporate into a current project or begin a new one.
and Other Poetic Tools in Your Writing
February 22, 2017, 6:30-9:30 pm
Poetry's economy of language and use of powerful images offers creative, succinct points of divergence for writers of all genres. This workshop will focus on specific poetic tools such as rhythm, repetition and alliteration to seed, deepen, and refine new and in-progress writing. We will study 3-5 poems and essays that engage poetic techniques and generate new material to incorporate into a current project or begin a new one.
Texas Writes Program at the Mount Enterprise Library
Saturday, February 4, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Free and open to the public
201 NORTHWEST 2ND STREET, MT ENTERPRISE, TEXAS 75681
Join Charlotte and Suzy Spencer for an afternoon discussion about craft.
Charlotte will discuss "A Character for All Seasons: Bringing a Story to Life in Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall" and Kathleen Baldwin will discuss "Your Unique Voice: Bring Who You to the Story"
Saturday, February 4, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Free and open to the public
201 NORTHWEST 2ND STREET, MT ENTERPRISE, TEXAS 75681
Join Charlotte and Suzy Spencer for an afternoon discussion about craft.
Charlotte will discuss "A Character for All Seasons: Bringing a Story to Life in Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall" and Kathleen Baldwin will discuss "Your Unique Voice: Bring Who You to the Story"
Texas Writes Program at the Livingston Municipal Library
Thursday, January 26, 1:00-4:00 pm, Free and open to the public
707 N TYLER AVENUE | LIVINGSTON | TEXAS 77351
Join Charlotte and Suzy Spencer for an afternoon discussion about craft.
Charlotte will discuss "A Character for All Seasons: Bringing a Story to Life in Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall" and Suzy will explore "The Truth in Writing and Memory."
Thursday, January 26, 1:00-4:00 pm, Free and open to the public
707 N TYLER AVENUE | LIVINGSTON | TEXAS 77351
Join Charlotte and Suzy Spencer for an afternoon discussion about craft.
Charlotte will discuss "A Character for All Seasons: Bringing a Story to Life in Spring, Summer, Winter and Fall" and Suzy will explore "The Truth in Writing and Memory."
Part of a book club? Charlotte is available for skype and in-person discussions of
By Way of Water. Email her at charlottegullick@gmail.com to request a date.
By Way of Water. Email her at charlottegullick@gmail.com to request a date.
Radio Interview
If you didn't get to attend one of the recent events, perhaps you like to listen to the KOOP recent interview:
Once on the article, find the "listen to the interview" link, and voila!
http://writingontheair.com/genres/poetry/jon-hogan-maria-moss-and-a-mystery-guest/
If you didn't get to attend one of the recent events, perhaps you like to listen to the KOOP recent interview:
Once on the article, find the "listen to the interview" link, and voila!
http://writingontheair.com/genres/poetry/jon-hogan-maria-moss-and-a-mystery-guest/
