Taste of StoryStudio
Friday, May 20, 2011
Join us for a sampler of wine, cheese, and StoryStudio classes. In this round-robin night of three 30-minute classes, popular instructors Jill Pollack, Jack Helbig, and Sarah Rosenblum will be on hand to teach their favorite writing exercises and share their points of view on the craft of fiction, essays, and memoir.
This lively event offers a unique opportunity to learn from three different instructors in one evening, as well as to mingle with fellow writers over drinks and snacks. This is a great opportunity for new students to get a feel for StoryStudio and its instructors, and also a great way for long-time students to learn from instructors they haven’t had a chance to study with yet.
The schedule for the night:
6:30-7:00: Mingling, wine drinking, and introduction. Participants split into 3 groups.
7:00-7:30: Session 1
7:30-7:45: Break
7:45-8:15: Session 2
8:15-8:30: Break
8:30-9:00: Session 3
If you’ve been curious about StoryStudio Chicago, want to check out an instructor’s style before the summer session starts, or just hang out with other writers on a Friday night, this is your chance!
About the Instructors:
Jill Pollack is the founder and director of StoryStudio. A Chicago-based writer and editor, Jill’s 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 also the founder of the Chicago Literary Alliance.
Jack Helbig is a theater critic, arts writer, and essayist for various publications. He regularly writes for the Chicago Reader and the Daily Herald. He is also a playwright; his musical adaptation, The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat, written with songwriter Mark Hollmann has been produced in Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Kansas City, and Orem, Utah. His musical, Hotel d’Amour, written with Gregg Opelka (and based on Georges Feydeau’s farce A Flea in Her Ear), was first produced by the Buffalo Theatre Company in Chicago and has since been done around the U.S. He has written two plays, Thinking of Her Made Him Think of Her, an autobiographical piece first produced by the Talisman Theatre in Elgin, Illinois. He has been keeping a journal since he was in Mr. Kramer’s ninth grade English class at St. Louis U. High. He is now working on his 66th journal.
A freelance writer with an MFA in creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sarah Terez Rosenblum’s select publications include Ignavia Press, Fictionatwork.com, The Sun Times, The Windy City Times, The Shepherd Express and Venus Magazine. She is Theater Listings Manager for centerstage.com, a twice-weekly blogger for The Chicago Sun Times, and a Spinning instructor, which means sometimes she forgets where she is and hollers at Creative Writing students to feel the burn. That won’t be a problem, will it?