Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland

Classes & Lectures - Writing

BROWSE SUB CLASSES:
Art Writing

SPOTLIGHT

Bethesda Literary Festival Youth Writing Contest

Tuesday, January 05, 2010 - Monday, March 15, 2010 @ 5:00 PM

Bethesda Urban Partnership and Bethesda Magazine have partnered to honor youth writers at the Bethesda Literary Festival. Young writers grades K-8 can express t...

The Art and Craft of Screenwriting

Saturday, March 13, 2010

This intensive one-day workshop will guide the beginning or intermediate screenwriter through the entire screenwriting process: idea, story, plot, structure, ch...

Creative Fiction: Second Session

Saturday, March 13, 2010 - Saturday, May 01, 2010

This workshop is an intensive exploration of the elements of writing fiction, the uses of the imagination, and the demands of literary genres, including the sho...

Applying Stand Up Comedy Techniques to Your Writing

Saturday, March 13, 2010 - Sunday, March 14, 2010

If you can read this and you can laugh, you can write humor! Learn to apply the basic psychology of how your brain gets a joke to discover what's "gettable" abo...

Creative Fiction Second Session Online

Sunday, March 14, 2010 - Sunday, May 02, 2010

This workshop is an intensive exploration of the elements of writing fiction, the uses of the imagination, and the demands of literary genres, including the sho...

Risky Writing: The Short Poem

Monday, March 15, 2010

In this workshop, we'll examine short poems by the masters and discuss what works and what doesn't. Using creative exercises from a poet/life coach, we'll aim t...

The Writer's Toolbox

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

This workshop is for students who want to hone their skills in the elements of writing that make for fine literary nonfiction. We will examine published work by...

Inspired by Literature

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Based on the premise that you can learn more about writing from reading great books than from any other source, we adopt a syllabus of readings with written ass...

How to Improve Your Writing on the Job

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Although we rarely take a pen to company stationary anymore that hardly means that writing on the job has gone the way of the electric typewriter. If anything t...

Against the Tide: Reading and Writing Longer Short Stories

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

All aspiring fiction writers feel the temptation to keep it shorter than short. For good reasons: shrinking attention spans, workshop practicalities, contest an...