creativewriting

Creative Writing at Playthink

A WRITERS’ SALON

meets at Playthink Learning Studio

First Wednesday of each month 6:30-8:30 pm

Writers of all levels and genres welcome.

Writers’ Salon is

an open forum where you can connect with other writers
a safe place where you can network with a supportive community
a time and space to play with ideas, try out new works and works in progress
a community that you will help build with your energy, expertise, and enthusiasm

During Writers’ Salon we

share tips for surviving and nurturing your writing life
challenge each other to set goals and meet your own deadlines
read works in progress, offer constructive critique

Cost: Pay what you can donation

Bronzed Moments with Wanda Huber

A Short-Short Writing Workshop In this seminar, writers will develop their story-telling abilities as they imagine the ordinary moments characterized in J. Seward Johnson’s life-sized sculptures currently being displayed throughout downtown Dayton. Seward’s sculptures capture the complexities of life found in the details common to everyday experiences such as walking a dog, reading a book, or waiting on a park bench. Writers will interpret the private complexities underpinned in such moments. Physically interacting with chosen sculptures will aid in their musings as will group discussion. The workshop is designed for writers to be in control of the course’s level-of-difficulty. Collaboration is possible. Friends are welcome to work together. It is also possible for individuals to complete a short-short story appropriate for submission to the City Life Story Contest, judged each month this summer. Regardless of how each writer chooses the challenge, the process will reveal the writer’s sentiment within.

Schedule

June: Wednesday, 6/18, 6:30-7:30 and Saturday, 6/21,10-2

July: (one full half-day workshop) Saturday, 7/12, 10-3

August: Tuesday 8/5, noon-1:00 and Thursday, 8/7, 10-2:00