Upcoming events at WriterHouse: February & March

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

Coming to WriterHouse: » Friday February 3, First Fridays Art Opening for Robert Boucheron’s “The Imaginary City,” a series of pen and ink drawings of buildings, streets, and towns.  The scenes recall European and American cities of the nineteenth century and earlier, drawn freehand and to scale. » Thursday, February 9, 7pm, “Making a Graphic [...]

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Jonathan Coleman, conference panel coming to WriterHouse

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

Coming soon (very soon!) to WriterHouse: » Join us on Wednesday, January 18th at 7PM for “The Art of Responsibility of Narrative Nonfiction Writing” with Jonathan Coleman. Coleman is the bestselling author of Exit the Rainmaker, At Mother’s Request and Long Way To Go and co-author of the New York Times bestseller West by West, [...]

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SELC Writing Contest deadline January 13

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Elizabeth McCullough

Press Release: Deadline Nearing for SELC Nature Writing Contest Writers and journalists have just over a week to send submissions for SELC’s 17th annual Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment.  Submissions must be received by Friday, January 13, in our Charlottesville headquarters. >> Contest requirements are below, and more [...]

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WriterHouse: Remembering 2011, Looking Forward to 2012

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

From WriterHouse: During 2011, WriterHouse completed its third year of operation. Hard to believe it’s been such a short time, considering all we’ve accomplished. Here’s a very brief bulleted list of 2011′s highlights: WriterHouse won the inaugural Emyl Jenkins Award for a “…Virginia individual or organization that…makes Virginia a better place for writers” A record [...]

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Announcements from WriterHouse

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

  Tuesday, November 29, 7:00pm–Charles J. Shields (Mockingbird; I Am Scout) has written what Publishers Weekly calls an “engrossing, definitive” biography of cultural icon Kurt Vonnegut. , And So It Goes has just been named a New York Times Notable Book for 2011. Join us at WriterHouse as Charles discusses his new book and the biographer’s art. [...]

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SELC announces 17th Annual Nature Writing Contest

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

17th Annual Nature Writing Contest Now Underway SELC welcomes three outstanding conservationists to judges panel The Southern Environmental Law Center is now accepting submissions for the annual Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment.  The award seeks to enhance public awareness of the value and vulnerability of the region’s natural [...]

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Unleash Your Inner Poet with Mariflo Stephens November 12

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

Check out this upcoming seminar at WriterHouse: Seminar: Unleash Your Inner Poet Instructor: Mariflo Stephens Cost: $55 WriterHouse Members | $60 Non-Members Saturday, November 12, 2011 | 9:00am-1pm A short poetry class for non-poets—the curiosity seeker, the timid versifier. If you’ve ever wanted to try writing poetry but don’t want to jump in the deep [...]

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Tayari Jones to discuss “Silver Sparrow” at WriterHouse Oct. 9

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

Author Tayari Jones will discuss family secret-keeping, loyalty and betrayal at a Literary Salon at WriterHouse on Sunday, October 9 at 2:00. “Tayari Jones is fast defining middle-class black Atlanta the way Cheever did Westchester,” according to The Village Voice, while Judy Blume says this novel will “break your heart before you even know it.” [...]

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John Warner, “The Funny Man,” at WriterHouse this weekend

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

This weekend at WriterHouse: Two events with John Warner (not the former senator) John Warner, novelist, humorist, editor for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and TMN’s Biblioracle, will be visiting all the way from Charleston Friday to discuss satire (and his new novel The Funny Man) and Saturday to give a seminar on writing funny. See the [...]

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Learn to write funny or scary at WriterHouse this fall

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

Two more classes on offer at WriterHouse: Seminar: So You Want to Write Something Funny? Instructor: John Warner Cost: $55 Members | $60 Non-Members Saturday, October 1, 2011 | 9:00am-1pm It’s easy. Wait, no it isn’t. Yes it is, once you’ve completed this seminar with McSweeney’s Internet Tendency editor and author of The Funny Man [...]

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September events at WriterHouse

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

After a lazy summer, WriterHouse is ramping up the events, classes, and seminars: Tomorrow’s (Saturday, September 17) seminar still has space. Even if you haven’t yet registered, come in the morning and register before class. Get Your Short Story or Essay Published If you’ve written an essay or short story and want advice on where [...]

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WriterHouse: Fall class session begins September 10

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

The Fall 2011 Session of writing classes begins September 10 at WriterHouse We’ve scheduled an unprecedented five regular 8-week writing classes and six half-day Saturday writing seminars with topics as diverse as humor writing and poetry writing for the reluctant. See the The Fall 2011 Class Schedule for a listing of all the classes and [...]

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WriterHouse still enrolling young writers, travel writers

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

WriterHouse: SPACES AVAILABLE IN TWO UPCOMING COURSES There are still spots available in the second session of “The Writer’s Palette: A Workshop for Rising 7th & 8th Graders.”Instructor Jen Wilson will introduce students to the various tints and hues that writers of all genres use, with a focus on generating a variety of writing, including  [...]

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Eleanor Henderson at WriterHouse June 28

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

Coming to WriterHouse: TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2011, 5:00 pm An Impromptu Literary Salon with Eleanor Henderson Ten Thousand Saints (HarperCollins 2011) author Eleanor Henderson talks about the challenges she encountered in writing her just-released critically-acclaimed novel. The novel is set in the 1980s’ straight-edge music scene, an underground youth culture powered by the paradoxical aggression [...]

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Summer classes at WriterHouse announced

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Elizabeth McCullough

WriterHouse summer classes begin the week of June 13. Writing children’s picture books, workshops for 7th-8th graders, fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Take a 5% early registration discount if you enroll by June 1st and pay by check or cash. Full class schedule and registration form Some scholarships available for the youth class thanks to the generosity [...]

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