Why take a multi-week workshop?

When we learn new skills, we need time to assimilate the knowledge, to let it seep into and enhance our writing.

Workshops are an opportunity to focus on a subject over a longer period of time. During that time you will be able to learn more about a genre and develop your craft through in-class writing and submit work for feedback from the instructor and fellow participants. 

We'd love to hear your suggestions for workshops you'd like to see on offer. We'll track down a qualified instructor to make it happen.

​For email updates on seminars and workshops
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STARTS OCTOBER 22/ 23

Story Foundations
​Workshop on the Craft of Writing (intermediate)

Need help pushing your story through from beginning to end? Engage your senses, hone your skills and ​put words on the page in a series of eight creative writing workshops with fiction writer, Nadia Jacobson, and hybrid & creative non-fiction writer, Batnadiv HaKarmi.​

Starting Mid-February

Introduction to ​Poetry
​Poetry Workshop

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.

The Silence in the Poem
Poetry Workshop (advanced)​

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.

Strengthening the Writer's Voice

Prose Workshop

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.
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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​      

Advanced Workshop

Have you just completed the first draft of a work of fiction or memoir and are feeling stuck or overwhelmed?

​Join a 6-week intensive with experienced writer and editor Nadia Jacobson to re-"vision" your narrative and acquire advanced writing and revision skills. 

Starting in May

Poetry Workshop
Bibliotherapy (Experiential) Workshop
Join award-winning poet Jane Medved in a series of six workshops, in which we will examine various techniques to outwit our rational brain and “write ahead of our conscious minds." We will study 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.

​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.

Writing in this workshop will center on the ways we engage with texts, the ways we "write" them. The writing exercises will be suitable even for those with less writing experience but with a love for words. Since this is a process-oriented, rather than a product-oriented way of working, with each session emerging from what transpired in the former session, the workshop will take place over eight weeks​.