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A little about ourselves
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Writing in English in a sea of Hebrew can feel 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. Choose areas of interest, from fiction, poetry and memoir to op-eds and blogging, to build a program tailored to your needs. What would you like to see? We'd love to hear your suggestions for workshops and seminars. Please contact us and we'll try to make it happen. There's a wonderful article about us by Natalie Chetboun, entitled, 'A space of one's own" in The Jerusalem Post, June 17, 2016,
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What's NEW?The Teen Writing ProgramWe've created a program especially for teens. We'll introduce teens to a wide variety of genres and nurture their writing through exposure to talented writers from Israel and abroad. These 8-week workshop series will explore the craft of writing in a wide array of genres including:
Fiction & Playwriting: Series 1 Poetry & Slam poetry: Series 2 Registration for Series 1 is closed, Registration has begun for Series 2 (starting after Pesach). Early bird discount ends March 19 |
Upcoming Seminars & Workshops
The Silence in the Poem
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Introduction to
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Silence is more musical than any song
Christina Rossetti Poetry, formed of language and music, arises out of silence, while silence remains a powerful force within the poem. In architecture and visual arts, “white space” has its own shape and size; in music the pause resonates with its own energy.
In this four-week workshop learn how to find, maintain and drive the silence in your work in order to deepen the nature and experience of your work. |
Are you drawn to poetry and would like to create poetry that is magical and moving?
Join us for a four-week workshop, during which we'll read poems and begin to write them together. We'll find out where and when to break a line, how to shape a poem, various forms of rhyme, the art of revision and the differences between a traditional and an experimental poem. Come and shape your memories, your pleasures, your obsessions and your dreams into the poems you have always wanted to write. |
Strengthening
the Writer's Voice
February 23-March 16, 2017 (Thursdays)
February 17-March 10, 2017 (Fridays)
Workshop
with writing & arts specialist
Sarina Furer
The time has come to reveal a new and unique voice in your writing. Through a rich variety of writing exercises we will shape and sharpen ourselves as poets and narrators.
Join us in this four-week series in which we will explore:
This series is appropriate for all levels of writers.
Join us in this four-week series in which we will explore:
- heightening the use of sensory detail
- inventing vivid imagery through surprising word choice
- experimenting with unique and unexpected perspectives
- sparking the imagination
This series is appropriate for all levels of writers.
Manuscript in Focus
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Story Foundations
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Have you just completed the first draft of a work of fiction or memoir?
Are feeling stuck as what to do next? Overwhelmed at the thought of revision? Join a 6-week intensive Nadia Jacobson to re-"vision" your narrative and acquire advanced writing skills to take your story/manuscript to the next level. |
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. |
Escape into the
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White Fire: The Spaces Between Words
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The Torah is said to have been written as black fire on white fire. We will be dealing with the realm of the white fire, the spaces between the words.
Since no text can fully delineate every aspect of the story, readers become part of the creative process, constantly filling in the gaps with their own contexts — things seen, felt, experienced, and read. Bibliotherapy deals with the ways in which we fill in these gaps. |
Join award-winning poet Jane Medved in a series of 8 workshops, in which we will examine various techniques to outwit our rational brain and “write ahead of our conscious minds."
We will study the techniques of other writers and put into practice the art of startling ourselves. Class time will be spent on editing and refining our own poems, as well as generating new material. This workshop is for writers with experience. |