APPS DUE: MAY 20 | Atheneum Master Writing Program for 2024-2025 | In-person
An annual certificate program, the Attic Atheneum melds independent study under close faculty supervision, student receptions, public readings, and other special Atheneum events created around good food and great conversation, dialogue, and literary community.
Running for just under a year, the Atheneum is designed to advance your writing and seed literary life in the city. Atheneum Fellows form a unique community of literary artists and citizens.
Being a writer means being a reader. The best way to become a better writer? Become a better reader. Books are a writer's most invaluable collaborator. To read like a writer is to explore why and how a narrative works—and then mirroring it. We'll do just that through a close study of craft and grow from there. In "Read Like a Writer, Write Like a Writer," we’ll read together one essay and one short-story for our models and then, through guided discussion that culminates in a creative writing prompt, we'll share what we were inspired to write. You’ll not only come away from the workshop with new writing, but with new habits for whatever you write (and read!) next.
In this four-week workshop we'll be coming together in community to write together and share our creative explorations. Each week will involve a fun poetry exercise, examples from an author's book, writing together and sharing. It's not really summer and it's not really spring but it is a great time to write. Come join us!
If you're a fiction or nonfiction writer and you struggle with writing scenes, you're sunk. At some point, every writer needs a refresher on making —fashioning, construction, composing, organizing, sequencing, imagining, re-imagining — scenes. Scenes are the DNA of story telling. "Once upon a time" might get the story going, but what follows next? Scene after scene after scene. So...do you find yourself explaining too much in your stories or creative nonfiction? Do you feel your writing gets bogged down in announcing, recounting, and summarizing? What you need is some scene-making medicine. Work with Attic Institute founder and two-time Oregon Book Award winner David Biespiel to learn the keys to explain less and dramatize more. An essential workshop for all writers.
In this four-week workshop we'll be coming together in community to write together and share our creative explorations. Each week will involve a fun poetry exercise, examples from an author's book, writing together and sharing. Summer is a great time to write and experiment. Come join us!
