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Write Around Portland 10-Week Workshop

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Based on their acclaimed community writing model, "Prompt" is a generative workshop that offers exercises to inspire the writing life. Workshop fee ($300) includes snacks, access to the “bowels of Powell’s,” and helps to fund workshops for low-income youth and adults. This workshop takes place on Tuesdays, March 19 – May 21. To register or for more information, visit writearound.org.

$300

The Witnesses the Wayward & the Way with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

PCC Southeast Campus 2305 SE 82nd and Division, Portland, OR, United States

The Witnesses the Wayward and the Way Workshop with Alexis Pauline Gumbs! April 26th, 2019- 10am-12pm Portland Community College-Southeast in Mt. Tabor Hall (room 146). The Witnesses the Wayward and the Way is an interactive writing workshop accountable to survivors of sexual violence and those seeking to create a world free from sexual violence. ***Priority registration is working to give space for student survivors from, historically oppressed, underrepresented communities, and holding marginalized identities (QTIBPOC) to be at the front. Drawing from Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity Alexis Pauline Gumbs will prompt participants to write individually and in pairs about survival, speaking out and supporting each other. Participants should be prepared to listen to each other deeply, engage their own and others writing and to…

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Prompt, a Community Writing Workshop

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

"Do it. It was the best gift I could give myself. You will stretch yourself as a writer no matter your level of experience." —Laurie, Spring 2019 Prompt participant "In ten brief weeks I learned of my strengths, built a regular practice of writing and made new connections. My writing improved significantly from peer feedback." —Suresh, Spring 2019 Prompt participant For writers and aspiring writers alike. See what Prompt can do for you... WHO: Write Around Portland runs community-building writing workshops: https://writearound.org/ WHAT: Prompt at Powell’s City of Books is a 10-week workshop by Write Around Portland designed to inspire the writing life. Based on the acclaimed Write Around Portland model, this dynamic workshop incorporates our favorite writing exercises, including freewriting; work with writing elements;…

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$300

Prompt Alumni Workshop with IPRC

Write Around Portland 133 SW 2nd Ave, Ste 304, Portland, OR, United States

This special workshop for Prompt alumni will feel like an expansion of one’s previous Prompt workshop experience. It's "Prompt plus" in partnership with the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC)! Participants will still generate new writing together and will also engage in expanded writing exercises and focused re-(vision) activities. The final two workshops will take place at the IPRC studio where participants will receive instruction on how to design and produce risograph prints of their own work. DATES: 10 Tuesdays, Oct 1 – Dec 10, 2019 (skip 11/26)* TIME: 6:30-8:30pm LOCATION: Write Around Portland, 133 SW 2nd Ave., #304, Downtown Portland (and IPRC, 318 SE Main St., #155, Portland for Dec 3 & Dec 10 sessions). FEE: $350 (payment plan available) includes snacks, studio time, additional…

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$350

Prompt Alumni Workshop with IPRC

Write Around Portland 133 SW 2nd Ave, Ste 304, Portland, OR, United States

This special workshop for Prompt alumni will feel like an expansion of one’s previous Prompt workshop experience. It's "Prompt plus" in partnership with the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC)! Participants will still generate new writing together and will also engage in expanded writing exercises and focused re-(vision) activities. The final two workshops will take place at the IPRC studio where participants will receive instruction on how to design and produce risograph prints of their own work. DATES: 10 Tuesdays, Oct 1 – Dec 10, 2019 (skip 11/26)* TIME: 6:30-8:30pm LOCATION: Write Around Portland, 133 SW 2nd Ave., #304, Downtown Portland (and IPRC, 318 SE Main St., #155, Portland for Dec 3 & Dec 10 sessions). FEE: $350 (payment plan available) includes snacks, studio time, additional…

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$350

Write Around Portland 10-Week Workshop

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Based on their acclaimed community writing model, "Prompt" is a generative workshop that offers exercises to inspire the writing life. Workshop fee ($300) includes snacks, access to the “bowels of Powell’s,” and helps to fund workshops for low-income youth and adults. This workshop takes place on Wednesdays, January 15-March 18. To register or for more information, visit writearound.org.

$300

Write Around Portland 10-Week Workshop

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland, OR, United States

Based on their acclaimed community writing model, "Prompt" is a generative workshop that offers exercises to inspire the writing life. Workshop fee ($300) includes snacks, access to the “bowels of Powell’s,” and helps to fund workshops for low-income youth and adults. This workshop takes place on Thursdays, March 5-May 7. To register or for more information, visit writearound.org.

$300

Creating Better Characters

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

For writers at all levels This workshop will focus on the skills involved in creating and sustaining vibrant and complex characters for both short-and long-form works of fiction. Through a series of in-workshop prompt-based generative exercises and take-home assignments, you will create and flesh out a series of vivid characters. We will focus on physical description, the inner life of characters, and how scene and setting, action and dialogue can round out and bring our creations to life. Close attention will be paid to literary and poetic devices. Supportive in-workshop sharing and feedback will be an important part of the process. CLASS LIAISONS: All classes have one liaison position. Liaisons receive free tuition in exchange for light duties before and after each class meeting. SCHOLARSHIPS…

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$175
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