James River Writers Conference: Early Bird registration is ending

Re-posting here an email I received from James River Writers about this year’s conference. Will I see you there? Early Bird Registration for Conference 2010 ends at 11:59pm on August 31 Pitch NYC agents and editors. Improve your craft. Meet fellow writers. Register online today to save on registration fees, or postmark your registration by [...]

A Tale to Tell at WriterHouse: a class for rising 5th and 6th graders

A Tale to Tell: Fantasy Writing for Rising Fifth and Sixth Graders Instructor: Carey Morton Cost: $125 (Scholarships are available for low-income students) 5 afternoons, Monday-Friday, June 21-25 | 1:30-3:00 p.m. WriterHouse, 508 Dale Ave, behind the Preston Avenue Bodo’s Calling all friends of mythic heroes, time-travel, shape-shifting, and various magical beasties. Spin words into [...]

Summer volunteer opportunity: StoryLine 2010

Email Leslie at Leslie Channel [outreach@charlottesvillearts.org] for more info: Piedmont Council of the Arts (PCA) is collaborating with The Bridge PAI, Charlottesville Parks & Recreation, the Charlottesville Community Design Center for StoryLine 2010, a hands-on project for kids (4th-6th grade) in the Parks & Rec summer camp.  The StoryLine Project involves collaborative mural design, storytelling, [...]

Invitation to the launch of 3 new books by Tim Lewis June 2

I want to share with you an announcement I received from local author Tim Lewis: I would like to invite you and any of your site visitors to attend the launch of, not one, not two, but three of my latest books. The event will be held on the evening of  Wednesday 2nd June from [...]

Writing course for fifth and sixth graders this summer at WriterHouse

About this time of year, we at CvilleWords start getting requests for ideas for children’s writing classes in the Charlottesville area. I’ve got a great one to tell you about this summer — A Tale to Tell: Fantasy Writing for Rising Fifth and Sixth Graders. The class will be held at WriterHouse Monday through Friday [...]

New workshops from VABC

New workshops, contest, and project from the Virginia Arts of the Book Center: It’s a great time to sign up for two letterpress workshops. Each class accommodates beginning or experienced printers, but the second requires some computer design or scanning awareness to make a file for photopolymer. (Designers or dabblers, go for it!) Also below: [...]

Still time to register for first ever BIO conference May 15

Coming up fast, and just a pleasant train ride away: The first Compleat Biographer Conference will be held on May 15, 2010 at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The conference, run by the Biographers International Organization (BIO), will focus on the practical aspects of the craft and art of biography. It also aims to create [...]

Things to do this weekend at WriterHouse

From the WriterHouse announcement list: 1. Spaces are still available in our Saturday Seminar, “Happily Ever After: Writing Romance Novels for Love and Profit,”  taught by Leeyanne Moore this Saturday, April 17, from 9am-1pm. By the end of the session you’ll be ready for your next step, whether it’s churning out pages or submitting your [...]

Spring Open House March 28 at WriterHouse

This Sunday, at WriterHouse: Please join us for our Spring Open House next Sunday, March 28, from 2pm-4pm. If you haven’t seen the WriterHouse space yet, come by just to see our century-old brick building with its sunny classrooms, cozy writing rooms and vibrant kitchen. Our instructors will be available to tell you about their [...]

Book makers: Get acquainted at VABC

I mean people who make books, not the other kind of bookmaker, and I mean the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, not the other kind of ABC — but this still sounds fun! Saturday, February 27, 2:00-4:00 pm:  Getting Organized and Intro to Accordion Books A combination of “show and tell,” a discussion of [...]

Nature Writing seminar at WriterHouse Saturday, February 27

You might know her from C-Ville Weekly’s Green Scene blog, but Erika Howsare is also a creative writer who is bringing her eye for nature to WriterHouse next Saturday for a half-day workshop. Space is still available. Nature Writing: Getting the Environment Onto the Page Instructor: Erika Howsare Cost: $55 members | $60 nonmembers Saturday, [...]

Play reading tonight at Hamner Theater

Looking for something dramatic to do tonight? Mike Mulvihill and Charmi Neeley will read their play Riddle Me, Riddle Me on Friday, Feb. 12 at 7:00 p.m. This is the first step in the VPI process, in which the playwright reads his play – or in this case, where the playwrights read their play – to [...]

This weekend at WriterHouse: Edward Lerner

Tor Books author Edward M. Lerner will be at WriterHouse on Friday night for a free event and then Saturday and Sunday for a seminar. WriterHouse is at 508 Dale Avenue, Charlottesville — right behind the Preston Avenue Bodo’s. The Many Worlds of Speculative Fiction with Edward M. Lerner Friday, January 22, 7pm Join author [...]

Upcoming WriterHouse Public Events

Coming to WriterHouse: »The Many Worlds of Speculative Fiction with Edward Lerner, January 22, 7pm–Tor Books author Edward Lerner’s imagination has taken readers to colonies on other worlds in the 27th century, let loose murderous computer viruses in the internet, and shown what happens to humans when nanotechnology runs amok. He will share his thoughts [...]

Matisse for children at New Dominion Bookshop December 12

Author Carol Lemons will be at New Dominion Bookshop to conduct a children’s activity and to sign copies of her book Matisse and the Boy Who Loved to Draw Saturday, December 12 from 10 AM to 12:00 Noon Matisse and the Boy Who Loved to Draw tells the story of artist Henri Matisse in his [...]