An adjunct faculty member at Pima College in Tucson, AZ, Sheila Bender has been writing about and teaching creative writing since 1980. Her many books include A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief, Writing and Publishing Personal Essays and Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down, co-authored with Christi Killien. Her articles on writing have appeared in Writer's Digest magazine and The Writer magazine. She created content for Lifejournal for Writers software and teaches online writing workshops through the International Association for Journal Writing, Writers.com and her own instructional site, WritingItReal.com, a world of tools for people who write from personal experience. She holds a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin, an MAT in Secondary Education from Keane University, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington.
Ruth Folit, technical administrator for the seminars, is founder and director of the International Association for Journal Writing, www.iajw.org. She developed LifeJournal software, lifejournal.com, and regularly conducts classes online for those who journal as well as credits instructional media.
Sept. 7 6:00 pm MST
Build Your Creative Writing Muscle
Creating original work by focusing on journal keeping for practice with details, images and metaphors.
Sept. 21 6:00 pm MST
Fiction is Plot, Character & Scenes
Making it happen!
Sept. 28 6:00 pm MST
Revision,
That’s Where the Real Writing Is
What you look for when you are developing your work, draft after draft, and how can you get trusted readers to give you the most help.
Sept. 14 6:00 pm MST
Repetition, Lyric Sound, and Form
Craft tools for creating poetry and lyric prose.
Join 4 one-hour classes offered Tuesday evenings in September.
Taught by nationally acclaimed Sheila Bender, with Ruth Folit.
You may take one, two, three or all four classes which will be offered through GoToWebinar. Exercises will be posted in advance of class as Google documents each week. We will email course information to you as it becomes available.
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