Workshops, Intensives, Retreats, Appearances, and Literary Events

. . . in Central Florida

Alternate-Week Workshops for Fall 2010

In all Woodstream workshops, you will

• learn to reliably produce pages of fresh writing week after week;
• find valuable critical approaches to apply to your own and others' writing;
• discover what makes your voice strong, powerful, and unique;
• discuss your work in a private writing consultation with the workshop leader.

About her Woodstream Writers Workshop, St. Martin's Press novelist Julie Compton says, "A good writing workshop is a wonderful thing . . . it can motivate you to do more than just put pen to paper. It can help a writer to see potential in things that might have otherwise been delegated to the bottom of the desk drawer . . . Thanks, Jamie!"

Here's what we're offering for Fall, 2010 . . .

 . . . AWA-Style Workshops

1) MAITLAND: Monday Evening AWA Workshop: 6:30-p.m.-9:00 p.m., eight alternate Mondays, September 6th-December 13th. 

2) MAITLAND: Wednesday Morning AWA Workshop: 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., eight alternate Wednesdays, September 8th-December 15th. 

Workshop leader offers prompts and writing exercises at every meeting to help writers develop "voice" and learn various aspects of their writing craft. In this welcoming, inspiring atmosphere, participants will find both creative challenge and a community of support.

This AWA-style Creative Writing Workshop is appropriate for writers at all level of experience, working (or experimenting!) in all genres. Limited to ten participants, the $315 cost includes a thirty-minute private consultation with writing workshop leader.

ONLY ONE SEAT LEFT IN THESE AWA WORKSHOPS . . . Register now!

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 . . . BookWriter's Workshops

1) MAITLAND: Tuesday Evening BookWriter's Workshop: 6:30-9:30 p.m., eight alternate Tuesdays, September 7th-December 14th.  SORRY, THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL

2) MOUNT DORA: Thursday Morning BookWriter's Workshop: 10-1 p.m., seven alternate Thursdays, September 9th-December 2nd. ONE SEAT STILL AVAILABLE!!

In these workshop/critique groups, seven writers will meet to develop and discuss their projects-in-progress. Together, we will create supportive community, write together, share new work for group critique, closely examine extended portions of one another's manuscripts, and learn professional techniques for marketing our work. 

You need only have a book-length project in mind to apply. Join us! Get your book off the ground and onto the page!

Mount Dora BookWriter's Workshop is limited to six participants. The $465 cost includes a one-hour private consultation with writing workshop leader and a written/oral group response to a portion of each writer's manuscript.

Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 407.644.5163 to register or for information.  

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The Next Level: Three-Day Craft Intensives/Retreats

Award-winning author Joyce Sweeney and Woodstream Writers director, Jamie Morris, know what writers need – time, support, instruction, accurate information, and the opportunity to practice the skills that will help them take their work to THE NEXT LEVEL.

Each Next Level Craft Intensive is an engaging, instructive, experiential, market-savvy weekend focused on a particular aspect of the writer's craft. Attendees meet individually with workshop leaders; participate in group discussions; attend craft presentations complete with Q+A; revise or develop new work with on-the-spot writing exercises; and present work for group feedback--and that's just the beginning!

The Next Level: The Marketing Intensive

Good for you! You've revised and workshopped and revised some more. Now it's time to learn the tricks of the book-marketing trade.

Let us help you prepare . . .
. . . to pitch at your next conference,
. . . find (and query) the best agent for your work,
. . . make your manuscript stand out above the rest . . .
when you join us, November 5-7, for THE NEXT LEVEL: The Marketing Intensive.

Over the course of three days

• Learn exactly what you need to go to market.
• Discover how to pick the best agents, conferences, publishers for you.
• Create marketing materials that will make you proud!
• Practice pitching until it's (practically) painless.
• Confer privately with a workshop leader to aim your efforts for best effect.

The cost for THE NEXT LEVEL: The Marketing Intensive, $525, includes snacks and supper on Friday evening, full breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday, and breakfast and lunch on Sunday. (Double occupancy, per person, add $110 for two nights' stay. Single occupancy, add $140 for two nights' stay.)

Enrollment limited to 15 participants.

Jamie Morris directs Central Florida's Woodstream Writers, leading workshops and intensives regionally--and coaching writers in many genres, towards publication.  

Register with This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 407-644-5163 for more information
or Joyce Sweeney at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .