Jesse Coffman-Riewe and Jan Cosmos met during a Write On, Door County retreat and have since collaborated on a film together, The Cave. Join Jesse and Jan for a lively journey into your intuitive mind. Together, participants and teaching artists will collaborate to deconstruct a short film about Encounter, Transformation, and the Flaring Forth of…

In this session, Adam Sleper will cover the basics of screenwriting including narrative, character, scene-building, and more. Adam will discuss the anatomy of a scene, structure, and character development. Participants will leave with a list of mostly free resources for beginning screenwriters. Adam Sleper is a professional writer originally from Omaha. Adam earned a B.A.…

Best-selling author Ann Heyse offers advice from her own experience of self-publishing her successful children’s books. She’ll discuss the many steps of the process including writing and editing, working with an illustrator, preparing a book for print, and getting the book onto store shelves. The session is designed for anyone curious about what’s involved in…

Learn the art of writing humor articles in this fun and interactive workshop. Using examples from McSweeney’s and The New Yorker, Richie will show you how to develop a premise, create jokes, deploy satire, and more. Participants will have a chance to write their own titles and workshop ideas while sharing a few laughs. Class meets in-person, Thursday,…

Every story exists somewhere, and that somewhere, especially in memoir writing, plays a vital part in how we view ourselves and the people in our lives. The writing of a place needs to move beyond the descriptive qualities of setting, that place is about people, class, and history. Writing about place creates layers of narrative…

Discover writing fiction that explores history, which might mean traditional historical fiction but might also include alternate histories or a story set in a place of historical importance. We’ll consider the ways that history can inspire and inform our fiction. Old photographs, letters, and other ephemera along with writing prompts will give participants several nuggets…

We’ll begin by looking at examples of different types of erasure poetry, including the work of Jen Bervin, who erases by lightening or sewing over text, and Sonja Johanson, who uses seeds, petals, and spices to cover text. We’ll discuss the relationship among erasure poetry, found poetry, and concepts like copyright, redaction, censorship, ignorance, and…

“I always keep two books in my pocket, one to read and one to write in,” said Robert Louis Stevenson in 1887. In this five-day generative fiction workshop, we will explore how that simple two-part strategy holds true for writers in the 21st century. Through a pattern of in-class readings, discussions, prompts, and sharing, we…

Writing creative nonfiction puts us into new relationships to time. First, we need to carve out time to write! And whenever we write memoir, we are confronting our earlier selves on the page and applying present-day wisdom to past situations. This workshop will cover a range of topics in creative nonfiction, all through the lens…

Embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth by joining this writing intensive dedicated to crafting one’s own spiritual memoir. Writing Your Spiritual Memoir is an unparalleled opportunity to delve deeply and unearth the profound experiences that shaped you and your spiritual beliefs, then weave them into a compelling written narrative. Our facilitators…