Maslow Family Graduate Program In Creative Writing at Wilkes University Offers Non-Credit Writing Workshops
Wilkes-Barre, PA (03/09/2020) — Wilkes University's Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing is hosting non-credit creative writing community workshops beginning in April 2020. All workshops are open to adults and will be held on Wilkes campus.
The cost for each workshop series is $65. Advance registration is available through Wilkes' Continued Learning website wilkes.augusoft.net.
The workshops include the following:
Nonfiction Essentials From Personal Essay to Book Reviewing
This workshop will help adult writers develop ways to write themselves as characters in their own personal essays, craft characters closest to the writer, and promote works the writer admires (including their own work) through review writing. This workshop will help writers develop an understanding of generating and revising new work.
Dates: Wednesdays, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; April 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and May 6
Location: Breiseth Hall, Room TBA
Instructor: Sara Pisak
Introduction to Screenwriting
This workshop for adults of any age will explore writing for the big screen, with an introduction to the tools and techniques screenwriters use to tell effective stories. We'll cover screenplay genre, format and structure. Students will write a short or begin a feature-length screenplay. The workshop will end with a table read of each writer's work during the final session.
Dates: Thursdays - 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and May 7
Location: Kirby Hall, Room TBA
Instructor: Kelly Clisham
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.