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.
Stay tuned for details on the upcoming special presentation led by Vanessa Blakeslee: "Break into Literary Magazines." This presentation will be free and open to the public, and will take place on August 15th 2009 at the following Orange County Library System locations: Hiawassee Branch, 10:30 a.m., West Oaks Branch, 12:45 p.m., and the Winter Garden Branch, 3 p.m. This project is funded in part by a Professional Development Grant from United Arts of Central Florida.
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
Orlando Writers' Workshops Salon
Full Sail University
Produces Kerouac Video
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Winner receives a free seat in a one-day Boot Camp workshop in Winter/Spring 2010.
Call 321-274-4329 to speak with Vanessa Blakeslee
Orlando Writers Workshops offers creative writing classes to Orlando writers. Whether you just have an idea for a book or find yourself in the midst of writing a novel, in our creative writing courses you will learn how to write and how to publish. Each creative writing workshop is not merely a writing group, as the workshops are led by Vanessa Blakeslee, an MFA in Writing graduate, published writer in fiction and poetry, and writing mentor. Whether you seek to explore creative writing for yourself, to sharpen your craft as a creative writer, to prepare for study in an MFA program, or write your novel and get it published, we offer a range of options--from one-day "boot camps" to weekly writers workshops, as well as manuscript consultation.
