Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University Offers 2020 Winter Creative Writing Community Workshops

Wilkes-Barre, PA (11/21/2019) — The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is hosting non-credit creative writing community workshops beginning in January 2020. All workshops are open to adults and will be held on the Wilkes campus.

The cost for each workshop series is $65. The screenwriting master class is $125 and is online. Advance registration is available through the university's Continued Learning website wilkes.augusoft.net. The workshops include:

Playwriting: Playwriting 101

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

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

Instructor: Crista Gaskill

Writing Relatable YA Books: The Essential Elements of Storytelling

Participants will focus on the aspects of craft that will help create reliable and realistic characters young booklovers want to read. The focus of this workshop is to shape image, voice, character, setting and story in young adult books that are representative of the target audience.

Workshops: Mondays 6- 8 p.m, Jan. 30; Feb, 3, 10, 24; March 2 and 9 (no meeting on Feb. 17)

Instructor: Jennifer McLaughlin

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. The 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 for the six-week master class.

Workshops: Online; Feb. 3 to March 13

Instructor: Ross Klavan

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About Wilkes University:

Wilkes University is a private, independent, non-sectarian institution of higher education dedicated to academic and intellectual excellence through mentoring in the liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. Founded in 1933, Wilkes is on a mission to create one of the nation's finest doctoral universities, offering all of the programs, activities and opportunities of a large university in the intimate, caring and mentoring environment of a small college, open to all who show promise. The Economist named Wilkes 25th in the nation for the value of its education for graduates. In addition to 46 majors, Wilkes offers 24 master's degree programs and five doctoral/terminal degree programs, including the doctor of philosophy in nursing, doctor of nursing practice, doctor of education, doctor of pharmacy, and master of fine arts in creative writing. Learn more at www.wilkes.edu.

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