Rediscover your creativity and find yourself writing incredible things down the road from where Jack Kerouac penned Dharma Bums and where every February, Rollins College hosts acclaimed contemporary authors in the Winter with the Writers series. In an Orlando Writers' Workshop, 8 to 12 creative writers--at all levels of experience, working in all genres--meet weekly to write and provide one another with feedback under the guidance of workshop facilitator, Vanessa Blakeslee.
We offer two different weekly workshop series. The Book Project Workshops are manuscript-driven, in the sense of traditional craft-based workshops where one or more writers in the group presents a manuscript each week from a book-length project for supportive yet critical feedback. We also offer workshops based on the Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) method developed by Pat Schneider, of which Vanessa is an affiliate.
Orlando Writers' weekly workshops are available mornings and evenings and run from six to twelve weeks; intensive workshops take place on weekends. All weekly workshop members receive a private writing consultation with the workshop facilitator. Workshops are held at a variety of eclectic coffee shops and bookstores in the Orlando/Winter Park area and inspiring lakeside locales.
Also, Orlando Writers' Workshop Gift certificates make the perfect gift for the writer in your life and are available for purchase year-round.
Orlando Writers' Workshops Exciting News and Community Events:
Did you know that the Performing Arts of Maitland has selected Vanessa Blakeslee to serve as Executive Director for the new Maitland Poets & Writers? To find out more about, please visit our Community Events page or the Performing Arts of Maitland.
Note: All workshops are currently on hiatus as Vanessa is completing her novel. She is available for private consultation on literary manuscripts, but due to her schedule, is taking clients on an extremely selective basis.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. ~Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath
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Call 321-274-4329 to speak with Vanessa Blakeslee
