Second Sundays, 2-4 pm, $5 per person at the door, cash only. No need to preregister.
Preregistration and payment are required for Works in Progress, and the Poetry Craft Seminar. Payment information below.
All workshops meet at the Bobby Pearse Community Center. (map)
Ellyn Bache – Getting Unstuck: Practical Strategies for Better Writing
Sunday Feb. 5, 2 to 4 pm.
This workshop has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.*
Please join us for the next Second Sunday workshop on February 12, 2-5 pm at the Bobby Pearse Center.
*If you had paid for this event via PayPal, your account will be refunded. Thank you for your support of the Emrys Writing Room–please check back often for updates on the Spring schedule.
Works in Progress: Focusing on Your Book Length Manuscript with Ashley Warlick
9 weeks, 8 students. Tuesdays: Feb. 28 to May 1. [Excluding Tuesday, April 3]
6:30 pm to 9 pm. $199; $189 Emrys members
This popular class is for experienced prose writers with a book-length manuscript of either fiction or nonfiction in progress. Each student will submit 40 to 50 pages of their work to be closely read and carefully considered by both the instructor and the group, providing the center of one full class period’s workshop. Through constructive, frank critique, both given and received, students will learn to identify and address what works in a manuscript and what does not. Expect to come away from the class with specific reading assignments and concrete recommendations on how to improve your novel, memoir, or collection.
Bio: A North Carolina native, Ashley Warlick is the author of three novels: The Distance from the Heart of Things (1996), The Summer After June (2000), and Seek the Living (2005), all published by Houghton Mifflin Company. She is the youngest recipient of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, a book reviewer and columnist, and a recipient of a 2006 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches in the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.
Poetry Craft Seminar: The Magician’s Workshop: Tricks of the Trade from Magical Realists
with Jillian Weise
Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:00 – noon
$15 for members of either Emrys or Poetry Society of SC; $20 for nonmembers
Words were originally magic and to this day words have retained much of their ancient magical power.
– Sigmund Freud
Jillian Weise says, “In poems, anything can happen. This workshop will introduce you to poems by magical realists and encourage the magician in you. Through examples and writing exercises, you will pull one poem out of your hat that shows off your imaginative talent.”
Bio: Jillian Weise, who teaches at Clemson, is the author of The Colony, a novel, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, a book of poems, and Translating the Body, a poetry chapbook.
Cosponsored by the Poetry Society of South Carolina and the Emrys Foundation.
Terri McCord – Write from the Art
3 Wednesdays: January 18, Jan. 25 and Feb. 1, 7 to 9 pm.
This workshop has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a later date.*
Please join us for the next Second Sunday workshop on February 12, 2-5 pm at the Bobby Pearse Center.
*If you had paid for this event via PayPal, your account will be refunded. Thank you for your support of the Emrys Writing Room–please check back often for updates on the Spring schedule.
Mindy Friddle – First Lines: How to Write Openings that Grab the Reader
Sunday Nov. 13, 2 to 4 pm. $5, cash only at the door.
Bio: Mindy is founder and director of the Writing Room. Her novel, The Garden Angel (St. Martin’s Press/Picador) was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection and an NPR Summer Reading Pick. Her second novel, Secret Keepers, was published by St. Martin’s Press in May. She was awarded a South Carolina Prose Fellowship in 2008, and has twice won the South Carolina Fiction Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson.
Preregistration and payment are required for Works in Progress, and the Poetry Craft Seminar.
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PO Box 8813
Greenville, SC 29604
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Please read our refund policy below.
Refund Policy
When you sign up for a class, you are (1) reserving a spot that prevents another writer from taking that workshop, (2) being counted in the minimum number of enrollments (3) increasing the salary that an instructor receives (instructor salaries are based on the number of students in a workshop). Because of this, you must cancel at least 5 business days in advance of the start date.
For multi-week classes, refunds (minus a cancellation fee of $25) are available for those who cancel at least 5 business days before the first meeting. Withdrawal notifications must be made via email: info@emrys.com and received at least 5 business days prior to the first date of the workshop. Withdrawal notification made fewer than five business days before the workshop, the day of the workshop, or after the workshop has begun are not eligible for refunds or transfers of any kind.
For partial-day workshops, refunds (minus a cancellation fee of $5) are available for those who cancel at least 5 business days before the first meeting. Withdrawal notifications must be made via e-mail: info@emrys.com and received at least 5 business days prior to the first date of the workshop.
If the Writing Room cancels a class due to low enrollments, all payments will be refunded in full.