You’ve been thinking about writing. But maybe you haven’t taken a writing class since college, or you’ve never taken one at all. Maybe you write a lot of emails, which you find strangely satisfying, or when you tell your friends stories, they say, “You should write that down.”
Maybe you bought a notebook, but you haven’t opened it.
Listen: a writing practice is like an old outboard motor — you have to pull the cord.
This is the class to get you jumpstarted. Not every beginning (or lapsed) writer feels ready to commit to a five-week or a nine-week class, but you can certainly commit to a one-day intensive in a sunny, comfortable space with other eager, new writers. The class offers creative and enlightening writing exercises to get you writing and developing your thoughts and ideas and memories. Through focused and sometimes interactive freewrites, as well as discussion and inspirational class materials, this class will go farther than you might expect, helping you take the next step toward choosing one idea and finding ways to go deeper— to examine its broadest avenues and darkest alleys, to expand, focus, shape and hone it.
Jenny Pritchett holds a degree in magazine journalism from Northwestern University and an MFA in creative writing from SFSU. The former managing editor of Fourteen Hills, she has taught or lectured at SFSU, California College of the Arts, Ex’pression College for Digital Arts, and IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her story collection, At or Near the Surface (Fourteen Hills Press), won the Michael Rubin Chapbook Award. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Southwest Review, Northwest Review, Boulevard, Salt Hill, Fiction Attic, Best of the Web 2008, and elsewhere. She has twice been a writer-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois.
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Maybe you bought a notebook, but you haven’t opened it.
Listen: a writing practice is like an old outboard motor — you have to pull the cord.
This is the class to get you jumpstarted. Not every beginning (or lapsed) writer feels ready to commit to a five-week or a nine-week class, but you can certainly commit to a one-day intensive in a sunny, comfortable space with other eager, new writers. The class offers creative and enlightening writing exercises to get you writing and developing your thoughts and ideas and memories. Through focused and sometimes interactive freewrites, as well as discussion and inspirational class materials, this class will go farther than you might expect, helping you take the next step toward choosing one idea and finding ways to go deeper— to examine its broadest avenues and darkest alleys, to expand, focus, shape and hone it.
Jenny Pritchett holds a degree in magazine journalism from Northwestern University and an MFA in creative writing from SFSU. The former managing editor of Fourteen Hills, she has taught or lectured at SFSU, California College of the Arts, Ex’pression College for Digital Arts, and IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her story collection, At or Near the Surface (Fourteen Hills Press), won the Michael Rubin Chapbook Award. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Southwest Review, Northwest Review, Boulevard, Salt Hill, Fiction Attic, Best of the Web 2008, and elsewhere. She has twice been a writer-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois.
You’ve been thinking about writing. But maybe you haven’t taken a writing class since college, or you’ve never taken one at all. Maybe you write a lot of emails, which you find strangely satisfying, or when you tell your friends stories, they say, “You should write that down.”
Maybe you bought a notebook, but you haven’t opened it.
Listen: a writing practice is like an old outboard motor — you have to pull the cord.
This is the class to get you jumpstarted. Not every beginning (or lapsed) writer feels ready to commit to a five-week or a nine-week class, but you can certainly commit to a one-day intensive in a sunny, comfortable space with other eager, new writers. The class offers creative and enlightening writing exercises to get you writing and developing your thoughts and ideas and memories. Through focused and sometimes interactive freewrites, as well as discussion and inspirational class materials, this class will go farther than you might expect, helping you take the next step toward choosing one idea and finding ways to go deeper— to examine its broadest avenues and darkest alleys, to expand, focus, shape and hone it.
Jenny Pritchett holds a degree in magazine journalism from Northwestern University and an MFA in creative writing from SFSU. The former managing editor of Fourteen Hills, she has taught or lectured at SFSU, California College of the Arts, Ex’pression College for Digital Arts, and IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her story collection, At or Near the Surface (Fourteen Hills Press), won the Michael Rubin Chapbook Award. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Southwest Review, Northwest Review, Boulevard, Salt Hill, Fiction Attic, Best of the Web 2008, and elsewhere. She has twice been a writer-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois.
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Maybe you bought a notebook, but you haven’t opened it.
Listen: a writing practice is like an old outboard motor — you have to pull the cord.
This is the class to get you jumpstarted. Not every beginning (or lapsed) writer feels ready to commit to a five-week or a nine-week class, but you can certainly commit to a one-day intensive in a sunny, comfortable space with other eager, new writers. The class offers creative and enlightening writing exercises to get you writing and developing your thoughts and ideas and memories. Through focused and sometimes interactive freewrites, as well as discussion and inspirational class materials, this class will go farther than you might expect, helping you take the next step toward choosing one idea and finding ways to go deeper— to examine its broadest avenues and darkest alleys, to expand, focus, shape and hone it.
Jenny Pritchett holds a degree in magazine journalism from Northwestern University and an MFA in creative writing from SFSU. The former managing editor of Fourteen Hills, she has taught or lectured at SFSU, California College of the Arts, Ex’pression College for Digital Arts, and IAIA in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her story collection, At or Near the Surface (Fourteen Hills Press), won the Michael Rubin Chapbook Award. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Southwest Review, Northwest Review, Boulevard, Salt Hill, Fiction Attic, Best of the Web 2008, and elsewhere. She has twice been a writer-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois.
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