Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University Offers Community Workshops In Playwriting and Screenwriting

by Vicki Mayk

Wilkes-Barre, PA (01/15/2020) — The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is hosting non-credit creative writing community workshops beginning in February 2020. All workshops are open to adults and will be held on the Wilkes campus.

Advance registration is available through the university's Continued Learning website wilkes.augusoft.net. The workshops include:

Playwriting 101

This class will give students the tools to write a one-act play and further develop their playwriting skills. The cost is $65.

Workshops: Wednesdays 6-8 p.m.; February 5, 12, 19, 26; March 4 and 11

Instructor: Crista Gaskill, a graduate of Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is a playwright and is active in community theatre in Northeast Pennsylvania.

Screenwriting Master Class

Using narrative film and television as a model, participants will discover that learning to write for the screen requires learning to read for the screen. This 6-week master class will be delivered organically, not in the traditional delivery of a series of formulas. Students will create a three- to four-page sequence of scenes that would act as the opening of either a feature length film or the pilot episode of a TV series. Participants will also craft a page or two on what the rest of the story would hold for the audience. The cost is $125.

Workshops: Delivered online; Feb. 3 to March 13

Instructor: Ross Klavan, who teaches screenwriting at the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Klavan has experience writing scripts for Miramax, Intermedia, Walden Media, Paramount and TNT TV.

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