Writing Workshops in Portland

SPRING WORKSHOPS FOR YOUNG WRITERS

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NEW: Poetry from the Personal, spring/summer 2010

Tap into your personal narratives to launch and craft poems

Working with prompts and “jumping off places,” writers will move from real-life haunts into the fertile ground of imagination as we thread the line between the truth of the truth & into the truth of the poem. We will also include crafting, revision, & critiques of contemporary poems & poets. This workshop is open to poets of all levels, & will be especially useful to writers who currently feel stuck or are looking for new motivation.

Time: Tuesdays, 10-weeks, 6:30-8:30pm, April 6 – June 8

Location: The Writers’ Dojo, 7518 N. Chicago Ave

Fee: $345

Deposit: $115 (non-refundable)

Register: Visit the Attic online.

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NEW: Creative writing workshops for young writers

Upcoming opportunities for Portland-area parents to register their young writers for enrichment courses.

Spring Break Writing Camp for Middle School and Junior High Students

Time: Monday, March 22 – Friday, March 26th, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Morning poetry sessions 10 a.m. – noon

Afternoon creative and expository writing sessions 12:45 – 3 p.m.

Location: Attic Writers Workshop, 4232 SE Hawthorne, Portland.

Students in the morning session will work with a different guest poet each day while focusing on a creating, revising and performing in a variety of forms and styles. During afternoon sessions, writers will explore various fundamentals of creative and expository writing, including narrative structure, character development, dialogue, setting, and place, as they launch new pieces of writing and work on existing ones.

Find out more and register online at the Attic

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See below for information on previous and ongoing Portland-area writing workshops.

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ONGOING

Strategic business communications
Strategic business communications micro session
Personal narrative: writing your true myth story

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BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATIONS: CREATE WORDS THAT CREATE RESULTS

With budget constraints and a lack of resources, more and more micro businesses, sole proprietors, and organizational leaders are being tasked with creating their own words for their online content, print marketing, and presentations. Breakthrough Communications is designed to help simplify the process by enhancing the skills you and your employees need to create the right words for websites, sales letters, seminars, brochures, blogs, presentations, articles, mailers, mission statements and more.

Breakthrough Communications will focus on how to enhance your written communications and marketing efforts, and is especially geared to supporting:

Owners of micro businesses who wish to cultivate a communications specialist on their team;
Sole proprietors who often dread having to create their own writing and communications pieces;
Senior executives and managers who must communicate on a regular basis with internal and external audiences through blogs and newsletters;
Graphic designers who are frequently called upon to create the words for their clients; and
Writers who wish to expand their professional services and begin doing more marketing and brand-related work.

Breakthrough Communications will center on the specific needs of each participant, while covering a number of topics, including:

How to move beyond blocks that get in the way of your writing.
Tips for getting started and moving through powerful, captivating and effective blog posts, newsletters and online articles
Creating taglines, headers, and short statements that connect with your company’s promise and reflect with the needs of your clients and customers.
Developing a source document from where your core business communications flow.
How to create powerful, meaningful online content that also helps your site’s search engine rankings.
The workshop will also include professional networking opportunities and one-on-one mentoring/review between sessions.

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BREAKTHROUGH COMMUNICATIONS MICRO SESSION

Set for the day after the six-week course ends, the micro session will be a creative introduction for those who are interested in taking the longer course this upcoming winter or spring. In this creative and interactive three-hour session, we’ll focus on stepping out of our boxes in order to break through writer’s block and fashion the words that will truly help our businesses thrive and succeed.

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WRITING YOUR TRUE MYTH STORY

Myth exists at the core of good storytelling, whether it’s a classic tale, a yarn spun around the campfire, your own personal journey. “True Myth Story” will help you create a structure, find a theme, and stay on the path toward writing the memoir or personal narrative you’ve always wanted to write. We’ll discuss how to apply the concepts outlined in Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers in helping to get your story started and keeping it moving.