Writers In The Woods 2024

The Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia presents: A day of workshops to help you become a better writer. Workshop #1 - Creative Writing Workshop This will be an impromptu workshop where the larger group will offer input into short pieces by attendees. If practicable, our workshop setting will be the forest beside our venue. Those who don’t submit are welcome and encouraged to offer their ideas as well. Attendees who desire feedback: email 2 pages of poems, stories, or creative essays to Bob at cravenrb@westminster.edu. Workshop #2 - Renovating Cliches We have all been told to avoid cliches. How best to use them? This session combines a talk and writing exercise to enlighten our under-standing of cliché. We will practice tech-niques to avoid, renovate, and draw inspira-tion from cliches. You will be encouraged to re-think the use of tropes, idioms, and common figures of speech in our writing. Workshop #3 - A Brevity Magazine Editor's Inside Perspective On Getting Published Is a byline with Brevity Magazine on your bucket list? Learn the flash nonfiction criteria the editors look for and the most common mistakes to avoid from long-time Brevity editor Kimberly McElhatten. This workshop provides an experienced editor’s look beyond the submission button to help northern Appalachia writers increase their representation across the flash CNF genre. Workshop #4 - Creativity With Language We will engage with new exercises using paint chips and gardening catalogs to stimulate ideas and explore and discover new ways of thinking about language and our writing.

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