Criticism and Column Writing Secrets Revealed! with Craig D. Lindsey
NEW DATE – Saturday, May 5 Time: 2:30 – 5:30pm Cost: $49
Registration: Click Here
Everybody’s a critic—but a person needs to have an impressive wealth of knowledge, a strong voice and a competent grasp of the English language in order to be a good, professional critic. In this course, former News & Observer film critic/pop-culture columnist Craig D. Lindsey will teach the necessary tools, skills and guidelines needed for those who’ve always wanted to be like Roger Ebert, but didn’t know where to begin. He will also instruct students on what is needed in order to become a professional columnist. Bring your own lunch—dessert provided.
Sharing Your Story with Alice Osborn
Wed. May 9 Time: 11:30am-1:30pm
Fee: $30 includes lunch and one of Alice’s books (After the Steaming Stops or Unfinished Projects)
To Register Email: stacy@onlyatbarnhills.com
Have you been told you should write a book? Or that you have a story that needs to be told?
Then this workshop led by experienced writer Alice Osborn will help you get started writing your memoir. Writing exercises and Alice’s gentle and focused feedback will help you generate memorable prose using fresh writing techniques. Alice will also discuss some do’s and don’ts in memoir writing and memoir’s inevitable privacy issues. All passionate writers welcome! Come prepared to write and create.
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Thursday, May 10 Time: 9-4pm
Fee: $99 EARLY BIRD (before 5/1) and $149 after
Registration: Click Here
Have you been told you should write a book? Or that you have a story that needs to be told? Then this one day concentrated memoir workshop led by experienced writer Alice Osborn will help you get started writing your memoir.
Writing exercises and Alice’s gentle and focused feedback will help you generate memorable prose using fresh writing techniques. Alice will also discuss some do’s and don’ts in memoir writing and memoir’s inevitable privacy issues All passionate writers welcome! Come prepared to write and create. Bonus: all participants will receive a complimentary edit (up to 5 pages) of writing completed during this workshop.
Fiction Editing Boot Camp with Alice Osborn
Location: Online Webinar Series (Call numbers for Go To Meeting will be provided upon registration)
Three consecutive Tuesdays: May 15, 22 and 29 Time: 3-4:15 pm
Cost: $149 Register Online Here
This intensive online workshop series is for editors and writers who are interested in breaking into freelance fiction editing or who want to advance their skills. This is a healthy marketplace for novelists submitting to agents or directly to the marketplace through self publishing–they need editors and this class will teach you how to be a successful freelance fiction editor! This three-week series will cover the publishing process and will give you confidence with specific editing concerns such as timelines, characters, point of view, revision and more. Also, students will gain more confidence with copyediting, rewriting, logic, flow, voice, point of view, characterization, setting, and more. On the freelance business end, we’ll also discuss time management, communication, and other smart business practices. This webinar series will be recorded so you won’t miss the lesson if you cannot make the “live” class. Besides being a successful freelance fiction editor, Alice Osborn has her MA in Rhetoric and Composition from NC State, is a former English teacher and current creative writing teacher and is the author of three books of poetry. In addition, she is also the editor an upcoming fiction anthology from Main Street Rag.
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Killer Story Ideas for Newspapers, Magazines and Websites with Lewis Beale
Location: Center for Excellence, 3803‐B Computer Dr. Ste. 106 Raleigh NC 27609
Thursday, May 17 Time: 11:30-1:30 pm, bring your own lunch! Dessert provided.
Fee: $29 Register Here
Ever wonder how successful writers come up with story ideas that editors go for? This workshop will show you how to identify good stories and pitch them. Workshop leader Lewis Beale is a veteran journalist who has worked for newspapers in New York, Los Angeles and Detroit, and has freelanced for dozens of outlets, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Weekend, and CNN.com.
