Getting Started: Creative Writing

In this eight-week workshop, beginning writers will have the chance to explore three different genres: memoir writing, short fiction, and poetry. Each week participants will be given a writing assignment and several readings, to be followed by a critique of the weekly assignment. Participants will learn about voice, point of view, dialogue, description, imagery and sound. By the end of this workshop, participants will have written one personal memoir, one short-short story, and three original poems, and developed a greater understanding of their own writing interests.