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Visual Journaling as a Creative Tool

Visual journaling can be one of the most rewarding forms of expression. And the best part is that you don’t need to be an "artist" or a “writer” to create and keep a visual journal. The goal is rather to tap into the mind’s natural mix of ideas, images and words by bringing together color, texts and pictures. It is about play, experimentation and exploration rather than display. ​

Need help pushing your story through from beginning to end? 

Break through “writer’s block".
​
Move your story from your imagination onto the page. 

Learn how manage the creator and editor sides of your brain. 

Engage your senses, hone your skills and ​put words on the page in a series of 8 creative writing workshops with fiction writer, Nadia Jacobson, and hybrid & creative non-fiction writer, Batnadiv HaKarmi.​

​Whenever we write autobiographically, we are writing from the moment in which we find ourselves. How can we both recapture the perspective of our past selves and be true to our current self's insights? 

​This seminar will consider how we write in the present about the dramatic and not-so-dramatic moments that have brought us to this day, evoking the past vividly while balancing it with our current knowledge of ourselves and the world in which we live. 

Readings will be sent out upon registration.
Who we are is shaped powerfully by where we are. Our homes and streets and neighborhoods, our childhood towns or cities, are more than just the "setting"; they make some lives and life choices possible, and others impossible. 

In this workshop, we will consider the relationship between who we understand ourselves to be, the places we have found and find ourselves, and the actions or events that have happened and can happen in those places. We will also think about what travel, or relocation, can mean for our identities. Together, we will look at some models of this sort of writing and experiment with writing it ourselves.

Readings will be sent out two weeks in advance of the seminar.

Seminar with award-winning author & lecturer
​Ilana Blumberg​

​​Writing Memoir: Place and Person
Thursday, November 3, 09:30-15:15

When possible, we offer a choice of dates and times. You'll find this alongside the workshop or seminar in the "Sign Me Up" area. Enter your email and indicate which dates you're available.

Please register to the seminar and workshop to show your interest, and we'll email you the link to confirm your registration and give instructions for payment.

Scheduling is hard, so we give options 

Join award-winning poet Jane Medved in a series of 3 workshops, in which we will examine various techniques to outwit our rational brain and “get ahead of our conscious minds." We will study other writers and put into practice the art of startling ourselves. 

​Writing & Publishing Children's Books

This half-day workshop, we will examine the process of  developing a manuscript for a children’s book. The aim is to guide aspiring writers for children through the process of translating their inspirations and first texts into publishable manuscripts. 

A little about ourselves

Writing in English in a sea of Hebrew can be isolating. WriteSpace Jerusalem offers a community and a wide array of quality writing workshops and seminars showcasing talented writers from Israel and abroad, with a view to nurturing English-language writing in Israel. Writers will be able to choose areas of interest—from op-eds and blogs, to fiction, poetry and memoir--building a program that is tailored to their needs. 
 
We'd love to hear your suggestions for workshops and seminars. What would you like to see? Please contact us and we'll try to make it happen.

Scheduling is hard, so we give options 

It's simple. Alongside each workshop or seminar, there's a "Sign Me Up" area, where you may enter your email and indicate which dates you're available. Once enough people show their commitment, we'll conduct the seminar/workshop on the date that suits the most people and email you the link to confirm your registration.
For updates on seminars and workshops

Angst of the
​Young Adult

Prose Workshop

Join award-winning writer Anna Levine in a series of 4 workshops in which we will look at character, dialogue, setting, plot, and learn the nuts and bolts of publishing and marketing. In class, you will be writing, as well as reading, bringing work for critique. 

Story Foundations
​I & II 
Prose Workshop

Engage your senses, hone your skills and push your story through from beginning to end in creative writing workshops with short-story writer and novelist, Nadia Jacobson, and hybrid and creative non-fiction writer, Batnadiv HaKarmi.

Manuscript
in Focus

Advanced Prose Workshop

Have you just completed the first draft of a work of fiction or memoir and are feeling stuck or overwhelmed? Join a 8-week intensive with Batnadiv HaKarmi & Nadia Jacobson to re-"vision" your narrative and acquire advanced writing skills.