Advanced Writers Workshop
Description: Have a story or novel ready to read to a welcoming audience? Struggling with a piece and needing some direction?
StoryStudio offers this ongoing workshop for intermediate and advanced writers who need clear and structured critiques to improve their work. Facilitated by Jill Pollack, each session focuses on workshopping student manuscripts to highlight what’s working and where the opportunities are. Specific comments will be offered for writers to consider during the revision process. And of course, we’ll talk about storytelling elements such as voice, character, narrative arc and more.
We’ll meet every other week, leaving writers lots of time to, well, write. And in between meetings, we encourage students to register for Reading as a Writer or simply come to the studio to get some writing done.
This course is limited to 12 students. Participants should at have least 25 pages of a manuscript to workshop.
Who Should Attend: This course is designed for those with experience writing and exposing their work in a writing workshop environment. To assure that workshop students are in the class that will be the best fit, we ask that prospective students contact us to send in up to 10 pages of a working draft. StoryStudio will then contact you to determine if the Advanced Writers Workshop or the Intermediate Fiction Workshop would be best.
Please email or call us to see if this workshop is right for you and to learn how to register: info@storystudiochicago.com or 773.477.7710.
About the Instructor: Jill Pollack is a Chicago-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, trade periodicals, and political journals. She is the author of three books for young adults: Shirley Chisholm, named a Best Book by Science and Film Magazine; Lesbian and Gay Families: Redefining Parenting in America; and Women on the Hill, a history of women in Congress. She is the founder of StoryStudio Chicago.
Date/Time: Alternating Wednesdays, September 10 to December 3; 6:30 - 9pmPrice: Includes Instructor Reviews. Student (non-member:)$375 / Member: $355
Email us at info@storystudiochicago.com to register.