UPCOMING EVENTS
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 this workshop, dive into your creative interests, expand the language palette you use, adopt a collaborative practice, and explore your own public voice. Participants will be coached individually, as well as taught specific writing practices. You will leave with improved skills, new practices, and a strong draft of a piece to submit for publication.
For more information:https://www.austinseminary.edu/page.cfm?p=3827
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 this workshop, dive into your creative interests, expand the language palette you use, adopt a collaborative practice, and explore your own public voice. Participants will be coached individually, as well as taught specific writing practices. You will leave with improved skills, new practices, and a strong draft of a piece to submit for publication.
For more information:https://www.austinseminary.edu/page.cfm?p=3827
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?
In this class, students will learn to identify what is most relevant in the material you already have. We will play and explore, mourn and rejoice. We will come out the other side with a clear game plan for a more defined story that has the potential to engage, enthrall, and maybe even enlighten. Throughout, we'll expand our understanding of:
efficiency of imagery and theme, the relationship between character and plot, how setting can define story and character, and problem language that slows the work down.
In the morning sessions, the class will include short lectures and writing exercises focused on helping participants hone their senses of what is missing in the current work and what is not necessary in the next draft.
In the afternoon sessions, students will have the opportunity in advance to submit their work for workshop that includes discussion and written feedback from the instructor and other students. Workshop materials will be due to the instructor no later than Friday, June 29, and all participants in the optional workshop will be expected to read and prepare feedback ahead of the workshop's start. (Details will be shared with each registrant upon purchasing a class ticket). Anyone who opts not to participate in the workshop will have that time to write (writing prompts will be given) or explore.
All class participants will be sent a packet of required reading prior to the retreat.
Students should bring completed writing, ideas for stories, or whatever they will find helpful as they work on new material or add to or revise old material during the class.
This class is appropriate for both short story and novel writers.
For more information and to register, click here.
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?
In this class, students will learn to identify what is most relevant in the material you already have. We will play and explore, mourn and rejoice. We will come out the other side with a clear game plan for a more defined story that has the potential to engage, enthrall, and maybe even enlighten. Throughout, we'll expand our understanding of:
efficiency of imagery and theme, the relationship between character and plot, how setting can define story and character, and problem language that slows the work down.
In the morning sessions, the class will include short lectures and writing exercises focused on helping participants hone their senses of what is missing in the current work and what is not necessary in the next draft.
In the afternoon sessions, students will have the opportunity in advance to submit their work for workshop that includes discussion and written feedback from the instructor and other students. Workshop materials will be due to the instructor no later than Friday, June 29, and all participants in the optional workshop will be expected to read and prepare feedback ahead of the workshop's start. (Details will be shared with each registrant upon purchasing a class ticket). Anyone who opts not to participate in the workshop will have that time to write (writing prompts will be given) or explore.
All class participants will be sent a packet of required reading prior to the retreat.
Students should bring completed writing, ideas for stories, or whatever they will find helpful as they work on new material or add to or revise old material during the class.
This class is appropriate for both short story and novel writers.
For more information and to register, click here.
PAST EVENTS
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 Libray
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/