WRITING WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Writers Place offers high-quality writing workshops in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and memoir, and the business of writing.  Taught by experienced professionals, our classes teach essential skills and foster creativity and excitement.   They’re perfect for beginners, inspiring for everyone.

What to Expect

  • Guidance and encouragement from a published professional writer
  • Instruction on craft
  • In-class exercises to stimulate your imagination and get you writing
  • An opportunity to share what you’ve written with fellow participants
  • A chance to ask questions

To enroll, scroll down or click here.

Here is a list sorted by date of this session's workshops.  Types are abbreviated F (fiction), P (poetry), NF (nonfiction or memoir), MG (multi-genre), and B (business).  Click on the workshop name to read its description.
 
 

Workshop

Type

Day

Date

Time

Instructor

From Telescope to Microcosm 

NF

Saturday

9/4/10

12:00-3:00

Hallman 

Business Taxation and Business Formation for Writers 

 

B

Thursday

9/16/10

6:00-8:00

KCVLAA 

Writing Dramatic Monologue 

P

Saturday

9/18/10

10:00-1:30

Trowbridge 

Developing a Nonfiction Book Proposal 

B

Wednesday

9/22/10

6:30-8:00

Goering 

Body and Soul: A Workshop in the Writing of Ficton and Nonfiction 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MG, F, NF

Saturday

9/25/10

10:00-12:00

Gildner 

Get Connected Open House 

 

Thursday

9/30/10

6:30 - 8:30

 

The Story of Your Life: Turning Your Memories into Memoirs 

NF

Saturday

10/2/10

9:00-12:00

Leifer 

The Art of the Contract for Writers 

B

Wednesday

10/6/10

6:00-8:00

KCVLAA 

Renku and its Moody Relations 

MG, P

Saturday

10/16/10

10:00-2:00

Behn 

What Writers Need to Know About Copyrights 

B

Thursday

10/21/10

6:00-8:00

KCVLAA 

Narrative Nonfiction: Finding the Story in the Facts

  NF

Saturday

10/23/10

9:00-12:00 

  Miller

"It’s All in the Details" 

F

Saturday

10/30/10

1:00-5:00

  Browder

Plotting: Your Life, the Short Story and the Novel

F

Saturday

11/6//10

10:00-1:00

Averill

*Creating the Protagonist in Your Mystery

F

Saturday

11/6/10

2:00-4:00

Goldman 

Finding the Poem in Your Poem: Some Nuts and Bolts of  Writing and Revising 

 

P

Saturday

11/13/10

1:00-4:00

McDougall 

Pitch It, Sell It 

B

Thursday

11/18/10

6:00-8:00

Leifer 

 

 

Saturday

11/20/10

 

 

*This class takes place at I Love a Mystery Bookstore, 6114 Johnson Drive, Mission, KS  66202, (913) 435-2583

 

ENROLL TODAY

Class size is limited. Enrollment deadline is one week prior to class.  Classes that do not reach a minimum enrollment will be cancelled and fees refunded.

BY PHONE (816.753.1090) from 9 AM – noon Tuesday and Thursday. Credit card payment required.

BY MAIL - Print out a registration form (PDF) or (Word). Include your check or credit card information. Mail to:

The Writers Place
3607 Pennsylvania
Kansas City ,  MO   64111

THANK YOU FOR OBSERVING THESE POLICIES

Cancellations: You may cancel an enrollment by 12 PM two business days before a class meets to receive a refund.  No refunds will be issued for cancellations made less than two business days in advance.

Transfers: You may switch an enrollment from one class to another two business days before class meets.  We regret that we cannot issue credits toward future classes or workshops if you cancel an enrollment or miss a class.