Call for New Workshops!

Last month's workshop, Twist it Up!, was a fantastic event. It really pushed people to subvert expectations and use different strategies in their storytelling, and you writers really rose to the challenge! It was fun for me to watch.

I also want to thank everyone for their patience, as this past month has been my first as founder, and I've spent the past several weeks learning the ins and outs of the job. There's more technical stuff than I'm used to, so thanks for bearing with me while I got everything sorted .

The next workshop will also, I hope, be a skill-building challenge. It'll focus on rhetoric, something that is often used in non-fiction writing like essays and research papers, but can also be creatively used in fiction.

However, today is not the launch of that workshop. Instead, today is a springboard for ideas! What do you want to see in a workshop?

To get you started, here are some of the main categories workshops fall into, just to give you an idea:

Skill Builders

Skill Builders are workshops that focus on honing a particular writing skill. In prose, we've had workshops that focus on skills like creating plot twists, interesting characters, using call backs and foreshadowing, and symbolism. In poetry, we've had workshops that focus on metaphors, monologues, or synethesia.

Basically, if there's any skill that you've seen writers use and you wonder, "Hey, how can I do that?" we might throw together a workshop to try to teach you (and learn ourselves!)

Genre Workshops

Genre Workshops are pretty much exactly what they sound like: everyone is challenged to write something of the same genre. If the genre is 'horror,' we would spend the first week or so reading horror and talking about what makes a good horror story; the next few weeks we'd write, share, and critique horror stories or poems of our own.

So far, we've covered genres like Gothic, Historical Fiction, Noir, and Fan Fiction. We've never done Fantasy, Sci-fi, Romance, Western, or actually most genres, come to think of it.

Form Workshops

A Form Workshop is one where a form is picked, and the writer is challenged to make that form their own. Forms we've done in the past include sonnets, flash fiction, and haikus.


So, there you have it. If you have an idea that fits in on of those categories--or, heck, if you have an idea that's outside of those boxes--drop it in the comments! If you missed any of these workshops and would like us to run one again, that's okay too! We're up for anything .

Be sure to say if you'd be interested in hosting, or if you'd rather I or another admin host the workshop with your idea. Now, depending on how many ideas we get, we might not be able to do all of them. But I'd love to make as many of them happen as possible!