Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland

Classes & Lectures

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...

Wrting for the Middle Grade Reader

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Middle graders (children ages 8-12) can be a terrific audience for your creative skills. This age group devours both nonfiction and fiction. We will look at mid...

Free for All Fridays

Friday, March 12, 2010

TGIF! Celebrate the start of the weekend with a FREE theatre class. During the fall and spring class terms, the Round House Theatre Education Center in downtown...

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...