We are offering several multi-genre workshops at this year's
Getaway. Although it may be hard to choose, you'll need to
select just one to participate in. By spending the entire
weekend in one workshop, you will go deeper with your writing,
making more progress than you thought possible. Each workshop
will meet for 15 hours over the course of the weekend and will
offer craft discussion, writing prompts, writing time, and
feedback.
"Thank
you for a great workshop. I had only written one piece, a short
story, prior to coming. It was my first writing workshop and I
am now inspired to write more. I like the way you created an
atmosphere engendering positive feedback."
~ Julienne, Montclair, NJ, 2012 Participant
Creative Writing Sampler
 Hemingway joked that writing was easy, "All you do is sit down
at a typewriter and bleed." If you are eager to explore three
different genres under the tutelage of award-winning writers and
teachers, here's your chance. Over the long weekend, you will
engage with key elements of each genre, practice techniques that
will turn your writing into a sensory experience, and develop
and refine your own style. Stimulating prompts will provide
springboards for writing, sharing, and discussion. Whether
you're seasoned or haven't put pen to paper in far too long,
this workshop will energize your writing without Hemingway's
blood and bandages. The Sampler will offer:
● Fiction--Saturday with
Renée Ashley
● Memoir--Sunday with
Mimi Schwartz
● Poetry--Monday with
BJ Ward
Free-Writing Intensive: A Generative
Workshop for All Genres -
2 seats remaining (1/4/13)
Free-writing can be the most important tool in a writer's
arsenal, the one that gives us the best chance of surprising
ourselves. It is also the first way we honor an impulse to
write, and the act during which the impulse catches fire
or peters out. Many writers know this, but few approach
free-writing as a practice, one with a wide range of methods and
purposes. This workshop will open the vault to the theory and
practice of free-writing, giving participants techniques for
getting out of mental and stylistic ruts, expanding the range of
available subjects, and generating a bounty of new material.
Both poets and prose writers will benefit from this workshop.
Led by Douglas Goetsch
 Song Writing Workshop
Join Ireland-based singer-songwriter Nancy Falkow for a fun,
intensive weekend song writing workshop. Turn your ideas into a
musical format. Through creative and challenging exercises,
create new works or work on existing material and develop your
ideas into stronger songs. Beginning and non-musicians
(lyricists) welcome.
Led by Nancy Falkow
Register today!
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