Story Foundations
Focus on Craft
Prose Workshop
Everyone has a story to tell
now is the time to write it
Move your story from your imagination onto the page.
Break through “writer’s block".
Learn how manage the creator and editor sides of your brain.
Break through “writer’s block".
Learn how manage the creator and editor sides of your brain.
Story Foundations descriptionEngage your senses and push your story through from beginning to end in creative writing workshops with fiction writer, Nadia Jacobson, and hybrid and creative non-fiction writer, Batnadiv HaKarmi. In each of the workshops, participants will hone specific skills through in-class writing prompts and submit pieces for in-depth feedback.
This 8-week series will focus on: Dialogue & embodiment, handling a cast of characters. setting, and story arc (4 sessions) Time, pace, rhythm, motifs & themes, and switching from writing to editing (4 sessions) This workshop is appropriate for those interested in writing fiction and creative nonfiction. DetailsMinimum/Maximum No. Participants: 4/10
Cost: 1,200 NIS for ten workshops (120 NIS per session) Location: Talpiyot (eve)/Talbiya (day) When: Tuesday evenings or Monday mornings Payment: 500 NIS via bank transfer to confirm your place (details upon registration), balance on the day of the first workshop. Email us regarding other payment options.
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Instructor Bios
Batnadiv Hakarmi is a Jerusalem-based writer, editor and artist whose works have appeared in Poetry International, the Ilanot Review, and Partial Answers. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she taught composition and Introduction to Fiction. A long time member of the Jerusalem Writing Circle, she founded and directs Night Writers, Jerusalem. She currently teaches creative writing at Emunah Ve’Omanut, a branch of Emunah College. Her work can be seen at www.batnadiv.com.
Nadia Jacobson is a Jerusalem-based writer and editor. She is a fiction editor at the Ilanot Review, an Israeli journal of creative writing in English, and serves as co-Municipal Liaison for the Jerusalem region of National Novel Writing Month, 2016 (nanowrimo.org). She holds an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from Bar-Ilan University, and her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Binnacle, Annalemma, Every Day Fiction, and a number of anthologies. A long-time member of the Jerusalem Writing Circle, she has taught creative writing at Emunah Ve’Omanut and privately, and has experience coaching writers from first draft to publication.
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Endorsements
'The Story Foundations course, taught by Nadia Jacobson and Batnadiv HaKarmi did exactly what you think it would: it gave me a strong foundation about the actual craft of writing, something I so needed to improve my understanding of how to build a story. Both of these women helped me start thinking like a writer and more importantly thinking of myself as a Writer. I'm so excited to think about where this writing journey will take me.' (B.B.)
'This course clearly explains the components of good writing, and then makes it entirely possible for you to implement them.' (L.S.)
'Thank you both for a lovely and insightful course.' (C.D.)
''The Story Foundations workshop was terrific...I want to take it again! I know I'll still learn more. Since taking the workshop, I've been writing every day.' (T.M.)
'Through Nadia & Batnadiv's nurture, I gained the courage to write, and the insight to understand what I was writing and how best to improve it.' (S.G.)
'Thanks for the worthwhile and useful course and for your careful feedback on my story.' (Y.S)
'This course clearly explains the components of good writing, and then makes it entirely possible for you to implement them.' (L.S.)
'Thank you both for a lovely and insightful course.' (C.D.)
''The Story Foundations workshop was terrific...I want to take it again! I know I'll still learn more. Since taking the workshop, I've been writing every day.' (T.M.)
'Through Nadia & Batnadiv's nurture, I gained the courage to write, and the insight to understand what I was writing and how best to improve it.' (S.G.)
'Thanks for the worthwhile and useful course and for your careful feedback on my story.' (Y.S)