Category Archive: Workshop

Apr
16

Read Well, Write Better: A Fiction Workshop with Michael Noll

Read Well, Write Better: A Fiction Workshop with Michael Noll  When: Saturday  June 1st, 2 to 6pm Cost: Sliding scale, $85-150 To register: visit http://readtowritestories.com/read-well-write-better-workshop/ About the Workshop: Have a story idea kicking around in your head? Or maybe you’ve banged …

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Mar
18

Jodi Egerton hosts a Word Play! class on April 6th 2-6pm

Jodi Egerton teaches at The Writing Barn

  Jodi Egerton, of Write Good Consulting, hosts her second Word Play! class at The Writing Barn on April 6th from 2-6pm. Jodi joined us here at The Barn for a class this past January, and she is back once …

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Mar
13

Sara Zarr Lecture ONLY Spots, $75.00 April 19th and 20th

The Writing Barn Presents: April Advanced Writing Weekend Workshop Little Turnings: Examining Emotional Pacing led by Sara Zarr  is sold-out, with thirty-two applications having been received for the limited capacity twenty-person workshop! Sara Zarr is quite the draw and we at The Barn are …

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Feb
20

Memoir Writing With Spike Gillespie

Spike Gillespie

The Writing Barn is thrilled to have Spike Gillespie, the critically acclaimed author of The Maine Event and another five books, here in July and August for two Memoir Writing Workshops. Here are the details: Session One:  July 5, 6 and 7, 2013 …

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Jan
29

Yes, and…Playing on the Page

Last Saturday, we welcomed Jodi Egerton, of Write Good Consulting, to The Writing Barn for a morning of creativity inducing, laughter generating, page-producing fun. Jodi, a Ph. D in English from the University of Texas is also an improv master, …

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Jan
22

Day 1 Advanced Writer Weekend Workshop with Agent, Alexandra Penfold

Alexandra Penfold

Our 2013 Advanced Writer Weekend Workshop Series officially kicked off at The Writing Barn last weekend. We welcomed long-time S&S editor Alexandra Penfold for her first appearance in her new role as a literary agent with Upstart Crow Literary Agency. Alexandra is interested in …

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Dec
31

Begin the New Year with a Commitment to Your Creativity or (Jumping for Joy with Jodi Egerton)

Writing Barn friends, As of January 2013, we’ve been holding classes, retreats, book launches and parties for one-full-year. Last January, poet/teacher Scott Wiggerman kicked things off with two SOLD OUT poetry workshops. We owe Austin writers — nope, all of …

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Dec
11

Deconstructing Characters with Alexandra Penfold

January is almost here and with it is the Kick Off event to The Writing Barn‘s 2013 Advanced Writer Weekend Workshop series. Our first hands-on workshop, World’s Without End: Deconstruction Children’s Literature Characters is being taught by Alexandra Penfold. Last …

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Oct
02

5 Tips for Writing a Gutsy College Application Essay

Sara Kocek

A good essay is an essential part of any college application, and The Writing Barn wants to help high school students get into the college of their dreams. This fall, The Writing Barn Presents College Essay Bootcamp, a three-part workshop …

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Aug
08

Bring Out Your Dead: How Kirsten Cappy Promotes Books to Everyone

Mercy: The Last New England Vampire

Another one of book marketing guru Kirsten Cappy‘s clients came to us with a wonderful story to share. How could we refuse? In case you haven’t heard, Kirsten is the instructor for the first The Writing Barn Presents workshop: Discovering Your …

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