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Story Basics
Katie McDougall
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Jan 19
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Mindfulness for Writers — January 21
Melissa Jean
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Writing the Seasons: Winter
Melissa Jean
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Nail Down Your Big Book Idea
Mary Adkins
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Immigrants Write
Nina Adel
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Travel Writing
Margaret Littman and Deborah Douglas
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Novel Jumpstart
Mary Adkins
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Mindfulness for Writers — January 28
Melissa Jean
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Nail Your Query Letter
Annie Neugebauer
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Writing the Night: Grades 3-5
Madelin Parsley
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Voice Does The Work
Natalie Lima
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A Beautiful Mess
Susannah Felts
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Putting the Narrative in Narrative Nonfiction
Minda Honey
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American Bodies and Political Poems
Meg Wade
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Power of the Pen: Antiracism Through Writing (Applications closed.)
Metro Arts, The Porch, Crossroads
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Writing the Weird
Lee Conell
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Writing the Fragment
AM Ringwalt
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Draft Chat — February 15
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Hybrid Forms: Grades 6-8
AM Ringwalt
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Codes and Codebreakers: Grades 3-5
Madelin Parsley
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The Art of Critique
Lisa Bubert
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Mar 22
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Gary McDowell
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Rinse. Repeat. And Revise: Narrative Nonfiction Real Time Revision
Minda Honey
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You are the Protagonist: Memory and Memoir
Sheree L. Greer
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Mar 25
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In The Beginning
Michael McRay
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Totally '80's: Radical Techniques for Character Development
Lydia Peelle
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Draft Chat — March 15
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Humor and Play
Carla Diaz
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Tiny Fables and Other Everyday Magic
Catherine Moore
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Mar 20
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Where Poetry Begins: The Art of the First Line
Anders Carlson-Wee
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Writing Sex and the Body Honestly: An Intensive
Natalie Lima
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Writing Clearly in a Chaotic World
Simon Han
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Introduction to Flash Creative Nonfiction
Susannah Felts
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Building Worlds
Mathangi Subramanian
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Storytelling 101: A Beginner's Guide to Writing and Telling True Stories
Michael McRay
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Time in Fiction
Ginger Eager
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Intermediate Creative Nonfiction
Yurina Yoshikawa
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Writing the Body
Mathangi Subramanian
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The Porch Visiting Writers Series presents Writing Is A Mindset: How Your Success is Tied to How You Think with Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw
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The Living Image: Creating Images that Move
Anders Carlson-Wee
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Shake The Dust: Generative Poetic Practices
Tyler Friend
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Writing the Seasons: Spring
Melissa Jean
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Writing for Recovery
Kate Daniels
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Draft Chat — April 19
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Finding Your YA Voice
Stewart Lewis
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The Porch Visiting Writers Series presents Who Else? Research and The Personal Essay with Belle Boggs
Belle Boggs
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May 1
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So You Want To Write A Picture Book
Lisa Bubert
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May 15
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Draft Chat — May 17
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May 17
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