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Online Workshops
The Midwest
Writing Center invites participants to
register for Creative Writing Basics, its
two-part online writing workshops to be
offered throughout 2012. The first offering
of Creative Writing Basics I starts February
4th and Basics II follows on March 3rd.
Online Workshop Format
The online workshops are offered in a
four-week, facilitated course format with
one hour of live discussion each week. The
day/time of the live discussion is
determined with the workshop participants
during the first week of the course.
Please note that the
online workshops have the following system
requirements:
Email access and broadband internet access
with one of the supported browsers (Internet
Explorer 6.0 and above; Netscape 7.1 and
above; Mozilla 1.3 and above; and Firefox
1.0 and above.) Skype is used for real-time
text conferencing.
About the
online workshop facilitators
Julia
Coleman
is a freelance writer living and working in
Florida. From sports to feature writing to
white papers to ecourse content, she has an
expansive writing repertoire. Her sports
writing career began in 2007 covering the
University of Central Florida Women’s
basketball team and now covers sailing,
professional beach volleyball, NCAA Division
1 football and women’s tournament
basketball, and more. She is south-Atlantic
Region Sports Editor for
Sportspagemagazine.com. Her publication
credits include many periodicals and
web/media content for a variety of
organizations. She is currently at work on a
novel.
Jodie
Toohey
lives in Davenport with her husband, two
kids, cat and dog. She runs her own
business, Jodie Toohey Writing Innovations,
which offers writing and editing services.
She is also attending classes to earn her
MBA and volunteers for the Midwest Writing
Center. In 2008, she published a book
of love poetry aimed at pre-teen and teen
girls, Crush and Other Love Poems for
Girls. She is currently circulating two
young adult novels through agents and
publishers and is researching her third.
Jodie recently won first place in the
Bettendorf Public Library's Love Poetry
Contest, will have two entries published in
the forthcoming in MWC’s Creative Writing
Primer and her poetry chapbook is set
for release in the spring of 2013.
2012
Creative Writing Basics I and II
offerings
MWC101
Creative Writing Basics
I
Facilitator: Julia Coleman
This
online writer’s workshop is for the
novice to intermediate writer of any
genre who desires to fortify a
fundamental foundation for his or her
creative writing practice. Elements of
voice and individual style, precision,
technique, observation and research,
along with customizing a writing
environment, will be explored.
Basics I is offered:
Feb 4 – March 2
April 7 – May 4
June 2-29
Aug 4-31
Oct 6 – Nov 7
MWC201 Creative Writing Basics II: Voice
& Style
Facilitator: Jodie Toohey
This
workshop is for the beginning to
intermediate creative writer who has
completed Creative Writing Basics I
(formerly known as Basics for Beginners)
or has a foundational understanding of
basic creative writing conventions
including voice, style, precision,
technique, environment and the creative
process. Basics II further explores the
conventions of voice and style as a
journey of discovery of these elusive
qualities that are unique to each
workshop participant.
Basics II is offered:
March 3-30
May 5 – June 1
July 7 – Aug 3
Sept 8 – Oct 5
Nov 3-30
Online
Workshop Registration
Cost for
either workshop is $65 for members/$75 for
non-members
**You can
also register with a credit card by phone at
563-324-1410,
or mail a
check to:
Midwest
Writing Center
225 E.
2nd St., Suite 303
Davenport, IA 52801-1621
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