Events in November 2017
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- CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS, CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JESSICA CARRILLO IN COLTON, CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH IN ONTARIO
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
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November 1, 2017This workshop is currently full. Check back after the new year for workshop availability.
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JESSICA CARRILLO IN COLTONCREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JESSICA CARRILLO IN COLTON
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November 1, 2017Fall workshops in session. Registration required. Check back in early 2018 for Winter dates and availability.
The Colton workshop meets at the Advance to Literacy Center located at 380 North La Cadena Drive Colton, CA 92324 (909) 370-1523
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH IN ONTARIOCREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH TIM HATCH IN ONTARIO
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November 1, 2017Fall workshops in session. Registration required. Check back in early 2018 for Winter dates and availability.
The Ontario workshop meets at the Ovitt Family Community Library located at 215 E C St, Ontario, CA 91764 (909) 395-2004.
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- CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
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November 8, 2017This workshop is currently full. Check back after the new year for workshop availability.
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- BETTER THAN FICTION: WRITING YOUR MEMOIR WITH FLAIR, FALL CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE IN RIVERSIDE
BETTER THAN FICTION: WRITING YOUR MEMOIR WITH FLAIR
BETTER THAN FICTION: WRITING YOUR MEMOIR WITH FLAIR
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November 9, 2017Memoirs don't have to read like diaries or timelines. The best ones are written like good novels--with the same literary tools that make great romances and mysteries come alive. This seminar will help memoir writers turn their memoirs into compelling stories, with the same dialogue, description, pacing and narration that make fictional protagonists jump off the page. This five-session hands-on workshop will feature in-class exercises and real-time, constructive feedback for both those who've started their memoir and those who want to get started. The sessions will be held every other week.
Session 1: Introduction - What is memoir and how to choose your story. We'll explore some best-selling memoirs and hear from a couple of memoir writers in our community. We'll go home with an assignment to start shaping our story.
Session 2: Plotting the narrative arc - Developing your story line and getting started. We'll share our stories with each other, share feedback, and discuss techniques for organizing the narrative based on good fiction-writing techniques.
Session 3: Writing great dialogue - How your characters express themselves. We'll discuss the basics for capturing speech and the various techniques for building character and scene through dialogue. We'll make our dialogue as compelling and telling as that in good fiction.
Session 4: Setting and action - Creating a sense of place and moving the story forward. We'll discuss how to choose anecdotes that illustrate the story, and ways to put the reader in the midst of the story. We'll practice writing scene-setting narrative in class.
Session 5: Self-editing and publishing your memoir - What are your options. We'll try some editing exercises and discuss your options for hiring editors and taking your memoir to print.
Please register at https://docs.google.com/a/inlandiainstitute.org/forms/d/1xbM6PpkThvsExttuoC6fC21t7JuEjM_Fw_NMgLgXR6E/edit
Dates: Thursdays, September 28, October 12, 26, 9 and 30.
Time: 10 a.m to noon
Location: Welwood-Murray Library, 100 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs
FALL CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE IN RIVERSIDEFALL CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH JO SCOTT-COE IN RIVERSIDE
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November 9, 2017This workshop is currently full. Registration required. Check back in early 2018 for workshop availability.
This workshop meets at the Riverside Public Library at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue in downtown Riverside, lower level quiet room.
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- READING AND CELEBRATION OF CARTLESS: THE MAGAZINE
READING AND CELEBRATION OF CARTLESS: THE MAGAZINE
READING AND CELEBRATION OF CARTLESS: THE MAGAZINE
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November 12, 2017Please join Inlandia at 1 pm on Sunday November 12 for a reading and launch celebration. Cartless: The Magazine, edited by Lydia Theon Ware I, is a compilation of works written by writers in the Cartless writing workshop series. The reading and celebration will take place at the Riverside Public Library, downtown, upstairs.
Cartless: The Magazine will be available for purchase for $20. Proceeds support this program.
The Cartless workshop series was led by Lydia Theon Ware I and held in partnership with Path of Life Shelter. Cartless served Path of Life clients. Over the course of the series, Cartless worked with fourteen different writers, all of whom contributed to this magazine.
Lydia Theon Ware i is a published poet in MUSE, the Riverside City College literary magazine, and a winner of the RCC’s Student of Distinction for Creative Writing Award 2006. She is the author of “Signs” a tiny gift book, and “D.I.R.T.: “A Poem Song”. Her latest body of work is entitled Awe; Love Letters to the Most High, a praise compilation of poetry and love letters to Jesus. She is a self taught poet, an actor and a Certified Peer Support Specialist. She loves to create new words and new moments. She has spoken at five Jefferson Transitional Program’s Community Education Film Series throughout the Inland Empire. Lydia has taught poetry to the homeless population with the Riverside Art Museum’s ArtReach Grant. She has also performed her work at L.A. City College, at USC, and at UCLA. Lydia has been a Peer Artist teaching poetry at the Art Works Gallery Recovery Arts Corps. She was involved with the performance troupe Acting Out Loud in the original play “Jubilee” a play of Recovery and Hope. Currently Lydia will be teaching this summer a Ten Week Intensive called "Cartless" with the Riverside homeless population; in partnership with Inlandia Institute and The Path of Life Ministries. -
- CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
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November 15, 2017This workshop is currently full. Check back after the new year for workshop availability.
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- CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
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November 22, 2017***Mae's workshop will not be meeting Nov 22 or 28***
This workshop is currently full. Check back after the new year for workshop availability.
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- CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP WITH MAE WAGNER IN REDLANDS
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November 29, 2017***Mae's workshop will not be meeting Nov 22 or 28***
This workshop is currently full. Check back after the new year for workshop availability.
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- BETTER THAN FICTION: WRITING YOUR MEMOIR WITH FLAIR
BETTER THAN FICTION: WRITING YOUR MEMOIR WITH FLAIR
BETTER THAN FICTION: WRITING YOUR MEMOIR WITH FLAIR
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November 30, 2017Memoirs don't have to read like diaries or timelines. The best ones are written like good novels--with the same literary tools that make great romances and mysteries come alive. This seminar will help memoir writers turn their memoirs into compelling stories, with the same dialogue, description, pacing and narration that make fictional protagonists jump off the page. This five-session hands-on workshop will feature in-class exercises and real-time, constructive feedback for both those who've started their memoir and those who want to get started. The sessions will be held every other week.
Session 1: Introduction - What is memoir and how to choose your story. We'll explore some best-selling memoirs and hear from a couple of memoir writers in our community. We'll go home with an assignment to start shaping our story.
Session 2: Plotting the narrative arc - Developing your story line and getting started. We'll share our stories with each other, share feedback, and discuss techniques for organizing the narrative based on good fiction-writing techniques.
Session 3: Writing great dialogue - How your characters express themselves. We'll discuss the basics for capturing speech and the various techniques for building character and scene through dialogue. We'll make our dialogue as compelling and telling as that in good fiction.
Session 4: Setting and action - Creating a sense of place and moving the story forward. We'll discuss how to choose anecdotes that illustrate the story, and ways to put the reader in the midst of the story. We'll practice writing scene-setting narrative in class.
Session 5: Self-editing and publishing your memoir - What are your options. We'll try some editing exercises and discuss your options for hiring editors and taking your memoir to print.
Please register at https://docs.google.com/a/inlandiainstitute.org/forms/d/1xbM6PpkThvsExttuoC6fC21t7JuEjM_Fw_NMgLgXR6E/edit
Dates: Thursdays, September 28, October 12, 26, 9 and 30.
Time: 10 a.m to noon
Location: Welwood-Murray Library, 100 S. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs