Candlelight Writing Workshops at River Bend
Candlelight Writing Workshops are held spring, fall, and winter at River Bend Bookshop, as a motivator for writing, as a community builder for writers, and as a teaching tool.
Here's what is going on at River Bend for writers:
Workshops - Registration Required
Register now: Send an email to janegordonjulien@gmail[dot]com
For Information Visit Candlelight Writing Workshops
Winter Workshops
Creative Writing 101 - Begins Feb 21, 6 weeks
Tell a story. Learn craft. Explore your creativity.
Alone, writing can be hard. In the context of a writing community, you'll find it far easier. This six-week craft class and writing workshop for beginning and intermediate writers will inspire you to get moving with your writing.
The workshop begins Monday, Feb. 21 at 6 p.m. Cost is $300; a non-refundable deposit of $150 holds your place.
Class sizes are limited, so sign up now. Meeting location to be determined depending on the spread of new variations of Covid.
Advanced Creative Writing - Begins April 7, 6 weeks
You’ve started and stopped, started and stopped, and you’re struggling to maintain consistency and motivation in the fractured world we live in. Join this workshop, advance your craft, and commit to creating the work. The workshop begins Thursday, April 7, and runs for six weeks.
Cost is $300; a non-refundable deposit of $150 holds your place.
Class sizes are limited, so sign up now. Meeting location to be determined depending on the spread of new variations of Covid.
Writing Prompts
Candlelight Writing Workshops offers free weekly writing prompts. Go to https://janegordonjulien.
Candlelight Writers Workshops at River Bend are hosted by Jane Gordon Julien. Jane is a career journalist and regular contributor to The New York Times, and winner of numerous awards from state and national press associations. She is the founder of Candlelight Writing Workshops and also authors an award-winning blog, “Notes on Writing” at janegordonjulien.com. Her writing has appeared in the anthology “Words Matter: Writing to Make a Difference,” The Bellevue Literary Review, Literary Mama, Northeast, Newsday, The LA Times, and more. She has served as an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and a guest lecturer at the University of Connecticut. She holds a master’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College, where she was an editor at the literary journal Lumina, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Candlelight Instructor Beth Hillson has an MFA in creative nonfiction where her thesis was a food memoir, “Well-Fed, I Hungered for Love and Got Brisket.” She has been a food writer and food editor for many years, writing stories that appeared in The Hartford Courant, Yankee, Connecticut Magazine, and the Huffington Post. She is the author of four cookbooks.