1) Introduction to Creative Writing
This one-day intensive workshop is appropriate for creative prose writers at all levels, though will be most helpful to beginners and intermediate writers. We'll combine craft exercises with writing time, a discussion of the writing life, and concrete advice on selling stories, finding agents, and sending out book-length manuscripts. By the end of the day, you will have written something, and will also have gotten help in assessing how best to incorporate regular creative writing into your everyday life.
Class is limited to fifteen students.
Schedule:
10 - 1: craft exercises, focused on language, setting, character, plot
1 - 1:30: break for lunch
1:30 - 3:00: group writing time
3:00 - 4:30: discussion of the writing life / business of writing
Cost: $60 (lunch is included)
Date: Saturday July 24, 10 - 4:30
Location: 118 S. Home Ave., Oak Park
Application deadline: July 7th
To register using your credit card or PayPal, just click below and fill in the appropriate amount:
If you prefer to register by check, please contact me for the address, and if you have any questions, please feel free to send me e-mail at mohanraj@mamohanraj.com.
2) Short Story Workshop
This one-day intensive workshop is appropriate for intermediate writers, who have completed short stories and are ready to send them out (or are already doing so). We'll critique manuscripts circulated in advance, and discuss the business of publishing. All fiction and creative nonfiction genres welcome. Short stories submitted should be no longer than 8,000 words (roughly 30 manuscript pages).
Please be aware that to participate in this workshop, you must:
a) send in a completed story by July 30th for workshop reviewb) commit to reading stories by all of the other participants, and writing at least a half-page of typed comments on each story by August 21st.
Class is limited to ten students. Adults only please, as some material may not be suitable for children.
Schedule:
10 - 1: Critiquing sessions
1 - 1:30: Break for lunch
1:30 - 4:30: Critiquing sessions
Cost: $75 (lunch is included)
Date: Saturday August 21, 10 - 4:30
Location: 118 S. Home Ave., Oak Park
Application deadline: July 15th
To register using your credit card or PayPal, just click below and fill in the appropriate amount:
If you prefer to register by check, please contact me for the address, and if you have any questions, please feel free to send me e-mail at mohanraj@mamohanraj.com.
3) Writing Your Identity (FULL)
Each and every one of us possess complex identities, which include such elements as race, age, ethnicity, gender, orientation, religion, class, national, political orientation and much more. In this summer workshop, you'll be encouraged to write your identities through the lens of fiction and/or creative nonfiction. (All prose genres are welcome.) We'll aim to create powerful stories with rich and compelling characters, while also exploring the basic elements of fiction/non-fiction writing: plot, dialogue, point of view, setting, structure, and more.
All levels of writers (including beginners) are welcome. The workshop will meet in person in Oak Park at Eastgate Cafe (just off the Austin stop on the Blue line, fifteen minutes west of downtown Chicago), in two three-week sessions; you may register for either session, or for both. Class size is limited to ten per session. During session one, we'll do focused exercises on character, setting, voice, and pov. In session two, we'll critique a completed short story from each member, as well as discussing plot, structure and theme.
Workshop dates: Mondays, July 12-26 (session 1); August 2-16 (session 2), 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
