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December Workshops
Writing About Nature
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INSTRUCTOR: Kendra Preston Leonard TIME: Saturday, December 7, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CST PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, December 1. After Sunday, December 1: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here LOCATION: Online via Zoom LEVEL: All levels
CAP: 15 Do you love reading and writing about the natural world? Did you read Vesper Flights or Braiding Sweetgrass and think, I want to do writing like that? In this workshop we’ll explore writing about nature, from insects to supernovas and koalas to oak trees. We’ll discuss how nature writing works in a wide range of genres, from non-fiction to romance to mysteries and speculative fiction and poetry. Our writing exercises will focus on observation and detail, making connections between nature and personal experiences, what it means to be honest in writing about the natural world, and how to develop a unique voice in writing about nature. Open to writers of all genres and experience levels, this Gentle Generative workshop offers a welcoming and supportive space in which to practice writing and share writing thoughts. |
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Getting Short Fiction and Poetry Published
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INSTRUCTOR: Sean Morrissey Carroll
TIME: Saturday, December 7, 1-4 p.m. CST PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, December 1. After Sunday, December 1: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here LOCATION: Online via Zoom LEVEL: All levels CAP: 15 Workshop will include twelve lessons on popular sites for submissions, strategies for getting yourself noticed, uncommon avenues for publication, and alternatives to traditional submissions. Lessons will include Optimizing Submittable, Moksha secrets, Chills Subs and expanding your search, Indie Publications and writing a cover letter, Local Publications and Opportunities, Why Try International Publications, Repubbing Your Fiction, Submissions outside your Genre, Why Personal Essays and Creative Non-fiction are for Everyone, Becoming a Regular Contributor, Slush Pile Volunteering to build your Craft, and Creating your own Publication. Led by Sean Morrissey Carroll, author, editor, and Programmig Coordinator for Writespace! |
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I have a First Draft, Now What?
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INSTRUCTOR: Jessica Raney
TIME: Sunday, December 8, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CST PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Monday December 2. After Monday, December 2: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here. LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map) LEVEL: All levels CAP: 15 You written a draft or won NaNoWrimo! Great! Now what? Taking your novel from 50,000 words to First Draft can be challenging. This class will give you tips and strategies to turn your manuscript into a working draft and beyond. Participants will learn how to shape-up their project, do a basic outline and match it to story beats, and make an action plan for the project. We'll hear from working editors and agents in interviews, and learn what piques their interest and we'll even have a go at the first page of your draft, workshopping together. At the end of the session, each writer will have an action plan to move forward with their work. Jessica Raney is the author of ten books, including seven novels and three short story collections. She is both self-published and small-press published and she works across the fantasy and horror genres. |
Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash
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Blackout Poetry with Brooke Summers-Perry
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Brooke Summers-Perry Presents: Blackout Poetry Practice Group in the Writespace StudioTIME: Sunday, December 8, 1:00 p.m - 3:30 p.m. CST
PRICE: $35.00 LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map) LEVEL: All levels CAP: 15 Blackout Poetry Practice Group · Find and maintain creative flow · Make meaningful connections · Engage in self-care and purposeful play Harvest insights and curiosities through the practice of contemplative blackout poetry. Utilizing a variety of prompts and media, this monthly practice group will invite you to find and stay in creative flow. This practice and community will help you more quickly recognize and release creative blocks and barriers, while honoring your unique challenges, path, and practices. |
Photo by Brooke Summers-Perry
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Zinemaking with Ganzeer
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INSTRUCTOR: Ganzeer
TIME: Sunday, December 15, 1-4 p.m. CST PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Monday, December 9. After Monday, December 9: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here. LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map) LEVEL: All levels CAP: 15 Join us for a one day workshop with Zinefest Houston's featured artist for 2024! Ganzeer is an internationally renown artist who will lead students through a generative workshop meant to give you the tools to conceptualize and create your own artistic and literary zine. Bring your words and art materials--and your whimsy! With over 40 exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer’s visual art has been seen in a wide variety of galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, and the V&A in London. His fiction has been published by Temple University Press, Vintage, and MIT Press, and his design work has been utilized by clients from a wide range of fields, such as music, enertainment, and publishing. He is also a regular speaker at universities and college campuses, often lecturing about the use of art as a tool of dissent and resisting oppression. Ganzeer’s current major project is a serialized graphic novel titled THE SOLAR GRID, an epic work-in-progress that won the Society of Illustrators’ MoCCA Award of Excellence in 2023 and awarded Ganzeer the Global Thinker Award from Foreign Policy in 2016. He has been an artist-in-residence in Germany, Poland, Jordan, Holland, Hawaii, and Finland, and has lived extensively in Cairo, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, and finally Houston—where he is currently based. |
Photo via Ganzeer
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