| Writing Enticing
Openings |
9/12/2020 |
Shamim Sarif |
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| Plot and Structure |
9/19/2020 |
RJ Samuel |
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| Creating Believable Worlds |
9/26/2020 |
Anna Burke |
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| Character Development |
10/3/2020 |
Karelia Stetz-Waters |
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| Setting |
10/10/2020 |
Penny Mickelbury |
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| Conflict |
10/17/2020 |
Sheree Greer |
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| Writing Cultural Diversity (Panel) |
10/24/2020 |
Georgia Kolias, Gar McVey-Russell, TBD, moderated by Cindy Rizzo |
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| Conflict (Title?) |
10/31/2020 |
Anna Burke |
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| Psychic Distance |
11/7/2020 |
Karelia Stetz-Waters |
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| Subplots and Layering |
11/14/2020 |
Penny Mickelbury |
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| Writing Trauma Panel |
11/21/2020 |
Emily August, Mercedes Lewis, RJ Samuel, moderated by Cheryl Head |
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| The Beats of Romance |
11/28/2020 |
KD Williamson |
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| Dialogue |
12/5/2020 |
Beth Burnett |
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| Showing Not Telling |
12/12/2020 |
Karelia Stetz-Waters |
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| Diverse Characters |
12/19/2020 |
Penny Mickelbury |
| Break for holidays - no class |
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| Exploding Genres and Subverting Tropes |
1/9/2021 |
Anna Burke |
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| Building a Mystery – Adding Suspense to
Your Fiction |
1/16/2021 |
Penny Mickelbury |
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| Scene Writing |
1/23/2021 |
Radclyffe |
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| Revision I |
1/30/2021 |
Karelia Stetz-Waters |
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| Writing Short Fiction |
2/6/2021 |
Anna Burke |
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| Giving an author reading |
2/13/2021 |
Melissa Brayden |
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| Break - work on readings. |
2/20/2021 |
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| Class readings |
2/27/2021 |
Beth Burnett |
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| TBD |
3/6/2021 |
TBD |
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| Those Pesky Villains |
3/14/2021 |
Anna Burke |
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| Point of View - Where's your head? |
3/20/2021 |
Beth Burnett |
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| Research |
3/27/2021 |
Sheryl Wright |
Break
Work on your manuscript for mentor deadline |
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| Mentoring Sessions: April 1 - June 30 |
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| Mentoring Preparation and Handling Mentor
Feedback |
4/10/2021 |
Joy Van Stralen |
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| Query Letters and Pitch Sessions |
4/24/2021 |
Karelia Stetz-Waters |
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| Writer's Block and class check in |
5/8/2021 |
Beth Burnett |
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| How to Talk About Your Book |
5/22/2021 |
Penny Mickelbury |
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| Panel - Next Steps - where do we go from
here? |
6/12/2021 |
Pam Stewart, C.L. Taylor, Maria Rahming, Virginia Black |
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| Marketing and Branding? |
6/26/2021 |
TBD |
Please note classes can change due to instructor schedules. This is the schedule for the class of 2021 and may change for the class of 2022.