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​UPCOMING

Finding Your Voice in Nonfiction
NOVEMBER 5 2022 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM CDT
​Online

Are you struggling to find your voice and sense of self in nonfiction?
Readers are drawn in by both a compelling story and an engaging voice. Yet, voice can be such an elusive element in writing, especially when it comes to nonfiction. This class will help you find your voice through the reading of vibrant examples and targeted writing exercises. We’ll have fun and develop a sense of who we are on the page.

TAKE THIS CLASS IF
  • You’re writing a novel or short stories.
  • You’re trying to find the heart of your memoir.
  • You’d like to make your scenes more powerful and dynamic.
  • You’re starting a new project.
  • You’ve ever struggled with knowing your own voice, in either fiction or nonfiction.

The deadline to register for this class is Friday, November 4 at 5:00 PM CST.
Registration information: 
https://writersleague.org/calendar/finding-your-voice-gullick/​



PAST EVENTS
Writers' League of Texas Summer Writing Retreat
“The Joy and Discovery of Revision: A Step-by-Step Approach”

July 13 2022 - August 3 2022 - Four Wednesdays Evenings, 6:30-9:30 pm

Revision – that much talked about and often nerve-racking aspect of the writing life. Some of us love it, others dread it, and many have only a theoretical idea of what revision actually means. What we do know – when we’re in it, it can be overwhelming. We can feel like giving up. How do we stay connected to our original vision while also improving what is on the page? How do we honor the work we’ve already done while also taking it to the next level? 


"Character Development in Memoir: How to Deepen the Story"

Saturday, April 30th, 10:00am-1:00 pm
Online


When writing memoir, it’s essential to explore how character development contributes to a compelling narrative.
This class will provide multiple opportunities for participants to consider how change and curiosity relate to character development for the narrator as well as the other individuals in the story. We will explore the roles of research, rumination, and empathy as they add meaning and layers to our personal journeys. We will read, write, discuss, imagine, connect, and grow. Instruction will include lecture, writing prompts, conversation, reflection, and confidence-building exercises.

Registration information here:
https://writersleague.org/calendar/character-memoir-gullick-2022/

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Syncreate Six-Week Creativity Coaching Group
Wednesday Evenings, May 25 - June 29, 2022
6:30-8:30 pm Central Time
This group will meet online via Zoom
​Cost: $195 Early Bird by April 30th / $225 Regular Price
(Registration Closes May 15th)





Ignite your creativity in 2022! This six-week coaching group will guide you through the journey of creativity in order to move from start to finish on a creative project. As detailed in our new book, Syncreate: A Guide to Navigating the Creative Process for Individuals, Communities, and Teams, Charlotte and Melinda will offer an in-depth exploration of Play, Plan, and Produce, the stages of creative ideation, project planning, and fruition. Weekly meetings will include experiential exercises and discussion to stimulate your creativity, identify your own best practices, and provide accountability for your creative goals and milestones.   

Click Here to Register: (this link will take you to the Syncreate website)
https://www.syncreate.org/upcoming-events.html



Flash Nonfiction: The Charm of the Focused Essay
September 4, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Online


How do you tell a story in a page? How do you condense all the necessary elements into 1,000 words or less?


Effective flash nonfiction renders a pivotal moment or theme from our lives with precise language, vivid sensory details, and lyricism. This kind of writing is distilled and focused, exploring the power of the haunted and the harrowing, the joyful and the generous. This workshop will help participants identify potential flash topics and empower them with the tools to grab a reader from the first word and not let them go. We will write at least three drafts of flash pieces during the course of the class as well as generate a list of possible future essays.

Want to read an example of flash nonfiction: https://brevitymag.com/nonfiction/the-salmon/brevitymag.com/nonfiction/the-salmon/

TAKE THIS CLASS IF

  • You’d like to learn how to write flash nonfiction.
  • You’re an essay or memoir writer who wants to hone your skills.
  • You want to reenergize your writing.
  • You write flash nonfiction and want to learn more about the craft that makes a good piece.
The deadline to register for this class is Friday, September 4 at 5:00 PM CDT.
To register:
https://writersleague.org/calendar/flash-nonfiction-the-charm-of-the-focused-essay-with-charlotte-gullick/


Writers' League of Texas Summer Writing Retreat
July 2021


FICTION: “Exploration & Generation: Playing with Fiction Fundamentals”  every Tuesday of the month (July 6, 13, 20, 27) on Zoom from 6:30 PM CDT to 9:30 PM CDT. You can find the full class description and registration options here.

Virtual Reading with Scott Semegran
Saturday, October 3, 7 pm
In partnership with Malvern Books
Join us to help celebrate the release of Scott's newest novel, The Benevolent Lords of Sometimes Island.


Better Prose Through Poetry: Using Rhythm, Repetition and Other Poetic Tools in Your Writing

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.

Saturday, April 18, 9:00 am - noon

Writers' League of Texas Texas Writes Program
​Join Charlotte for a discussion about craft.
Quitman Public Library
Saturday, May 16, 1:00 pm


Featured Panelist, Writers' League of Texas, Third Thursday
Thursday, August 15, 2019 7:00 pm start
BookPeople (Third Floor) 603 North Lamar Blvd.
Austin, TX 78703
Free and Open to the Public

"The Art of Personal Essays"


Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference 

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.

August 1-3, 2019
​Mendocino, California

Austin Liti Limits - Featured Readers Charlotte Gullick & James L. Haley
Tuesday, July 9, 7 pm

The Brewtorium Brewery & Kitchen
6015 Dillard Circle, Suite A, Austin, Texas 78752


Writers' League of Texas - Summer Writing Retreat

​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.

July 14-July 19
​Kerrville, Texas

This class is appropriate for both short story and novel writers. For registration information, click here.

East Austin Studio Tour
​
​​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

​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
ONLINE

Developing Your Perspective in Memoir

​Saturday, November 3, 2018
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
St. Edward's University, Austin, TX

Austin Community College's Literary Coffeehouse

​Featured Reader

​Monday, September 10, 7 pm
Malvern Books 613 W 29th St, Austin, TX

Creatives Meet Business Experience

Exploring Constraints and Creativity: Shifting the Narrative

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.

Saturday, September 22, 2:45-4:00 pm

Writers' League of Texas Texas Writes Program

​Join Charlotte for a discussion about craft.

Kaufman Public Library
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Writers' League of Texas - Summer Writing Retreat

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

​One Page Salon

Featured Readers: Meg Gardiner, Chaitali Sen, Christina Soontornvat & Charlotte Gullick

Tuesday, June 5, 7:30pm

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

Better Prose Through Poetry: Using Rhythm, Repetition and Other Poetic Tools in Your Writing

May 9, 2018, 6:30-9:30 pm
ONLINE

Writers' League of Texas Texas Writes Program
​
Join Charlotte and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho for an afternoon discussion about craft.
​

Penitas Public Library
Saturday, May 12, 2018

Learn All the Time​ Conference

Conference Keynote: “The Power of Storytelling”

Saturday, March 3rd, 2018

Honing the Spark and Mapping Out Your Revision

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

Austin Public Library's NaNoWriMo Events: Character Writing Workshop

Learn the art of the craft from published authors.

Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 6 pm
​Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 6 pm

Texas Book Festival

Moderator: Stories of Family, Stories of Self

Authors: Jose Antonio Rodriguez, Barbara Gonzalez Cigarroa, Carolyn Osborn

Sunday, November 5, 2017
11:00-11:45 PM
Capitol Extension 1.016

Writers' League of Texas Texas Writes Program
​
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

Lubbock Library
Saturday, September 30, 2018

Creatives Meet Business Experience

In The Venn: Where Story, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship Intersect

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

Reading with David Hicks and Natalia Sylvester

Join us for an evening of fiction!


Tuesday, May 9, 7:00 pm
Malvern Books, 613 W 29th St, Austin, TX


Better Prose Through Poetry: Using Rhythm, Repetition and Other Poetic Tools in Your Writing

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.

February 22, 2017, 6:30-9:30 pm
ONLINE

Writers' League of Texas Texas Writes Program

​Join Charlotte for a discussion about craft.

Mount Enterprise Library
Saturday, February 4, 2018

Writers' League of Texas Texas Writes Program

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.

Livingston Municipal Library
Thursday, January 26, 1:00-4:00 pm
707 N Tyler Avenue, Livingston, TX


Radio Interview

If you didn't get to attend one of the recent events, perhaps you'd like to listen to the KOOP recent interview on Writing on the Air
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