Writing Workshops
2012 GBF Writing Workshops for Ages 13 to Adult (age specifications vary per workshop)
Costs: Adults - $10 | Full-time Students - $5
REGISTRATION: Opens Monday 3/26. Register on-line or in person at Bohrer Activity Center located at 506 S. Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Note: On-line registration will require an account password in order to complete the registration. Passwords may take 24 to 48 hours to receive. You will find the Gaithersburg Book Festival Workshop listings under the Special Events category. Visit the Children's Village page to view our Free Children's Workshops!Workshop Registration Form
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Workshops Located at City Hall Gallery
Presented by:
Richard Peabody and Rae Bryant
Workshop attendees will read and engage with examples of short-short works in text and multimedia forms while considering the importance of these forms in today’s current literary, mainstream, experimental, and avant-garde markets. A short creative writing exercise will be given along with a list of print and online journals currently accepting short-short forms. Presenters will be available to answer questions.
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Presented by:
Ron Capps
Dialogue is the driver for all the significant moments in your stories and essays. But putting words into the mouths of your characters is only the first step in bringing them to life. This seminar can help you determine how to structure dialogue, when and where to place dialogue in your stories, how to pace dialogue, and what your characters might do while they're talking. The workshop will include a creative writing exercise to test your new skills.
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Presented by:
Tony Mancus
Exploring the notion that poems are/can be tiny intricate machines, workshop participants will take a look at a few contemporary pieces of poetry and try to discern what makes them tick. Then we will employ methods used within those poems to construct short pieces on site. There will be some generative writing games, the potential for collaboration and lots of making/breaking meaning.
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Presented by:
Tony Mancus
Submitting writing to strangers who are going to judge it is one of the more daunting parts of the task of “being a writer.” In this discussion and workshop we’ll address tactics to help you sort out what places might be the best potential homes for your work. We’ll also share organizational tactics for the work that you’ve submitted and how to deal with the inevitable: rejection.
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Presented by:
Pamela Ehrenberg
This workshop explores finding your voice, finding a path, and finding the time to get your own novel underway. There are still plenty of young adult novels waiting to be written, and plenty of stories to be told. Participants will craft a 25-word synopsis of their novels-to-be and map out a summer writing schedule for creating their first draft. Writing exercises will help participants begin getting to know their main characters.
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Workshops Located at City Hall Conference Room
Presented by:
Scott Mastro
Your book is finished and that dream literary agent has gotten in the elevator with you. You have thirty seconds to capture their imagination with a great pitch. 'Perfecting the Pitch' puts the essence of your book on paper in the best prose, least words and in a delivery the right editor and agent won't be able to turn down.
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Presented by:
Kathy Crutcher
In this workshop participants will get a behind-the-scenes look at how the judging process works for competitions like the Scholastic Writing Awards, which is the country’s largest and most prestigious recognition program for teen writers. We will evaluate sample submissions as jurors do and thereby learn what makes strong, memorable, (award-winning!) writing.
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Presented by:
Kathy Crutcher
Participants will discover their own unique stories to highlight in college admissions essays. Writers will look at samples, define criteria for successful pieces, brainstorm ideas and begin drafting their essays. Participants will share their work with each other and with the instructors for affirmation and constructive feedback.
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