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Write This Year!
Make 2012 the year that you put the pen to paper or keep the keys on the keyboard.
Write this Year!
Last Event:
January 28
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all retreat to our writing spaces, sequester ourselves and write, write, write? Alas, in reality, that doesn't often happen. Come receive a prompt, a push, a promise...to progress, little by little, word by word. Work on something you've already got, or start a new piece. Bounce ideas off other writers. Get feedback. Take some time for yourself and write this year. Attend one session or all six.
Thanks to Friends of the Sammamish Library, there is no charge for this event. Registration is preferred but drop-ins welcome.
to register, please visit:
www.kcls.org/sammamish
Pondering Pub
3rd Thursday every month
Next Event: Mar 16
Think. Reflect. Breathe. Write. Sketch. Dream. Doodle. In other words, ponder.
Snuggle up to lamp lit tables and lose yourself. Write or sketch what you want to without interruption. Join with others in the Eastside arts community in this new, open creative space. Profound, essential quiet time is necessary for all creative endeavors.
ages 13 and up
drop in 6 - 9 pm
Your $10 donation keeps this creative space open for all
artEAST Art Center
95 Front Street
Issaquah, WA
to register please vsit:
http://arteast.org/2011/07/wr3-ponderings-pub/
or call artEAST 425-392-3191
Weekly Writing Workshops
Tuesday mornings
Feb 28 - Apr 3
9:30 - 11:30 am
Grab a coffee, a pen and paper. Share in six weeks of words for writers of all levels. Start a new project or fine tune an existing one. Just write to write. Take the pressure off to produce. Practice, practice, practice. Respond to prompts, share your work, receive feedback. Drop in when you can or plan for all six sessions.
Hailstone Feed Store
232 Front Street N
Issaquah, WA
to register, please visit
http://arteast.org/2011/11/wr1-practice/
or call 425-392-3191
Want to try writing with your book club, church group or youth organization?
To arrange a private workshop or class, please
Contact Reisha for info or registration.
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I think I was born with a spiral notebook
in one hand and a
number 2 pencil in the other.
My mother will
not verify this information.
I crafted stories silently on long road trips across
Georgia to visit grandmothers in houses that spoke their own tales to me. Some of these found their way to Big Chief tablets or were pecked out on a dusty Remington or Smith-Corona kept around for the sole purpose of typing envelopes. There were the wild, verbal fourth grade stories we read aloud, complete with burping and bathroom noises. Later came a refinement of my prose predicated by high school English teachers and the study of Chaucer and Somerset Maugham, Carl Sandburg and Frost.
It was the smear of newsprint and the clack of the typewriter keys that eventually prevailed over this writer’s heart. My weekly byline in the hometown Dothan Progress was the encouragement I needed to spur me towards a Journalism degree at The University of Georgia. The magnetic pull and passion for the byline still exists but is coupled now with an equally strong desire to bring together an energetic collective of creativity in a community of writers.
One workshop participant calls writing his own private art. And just as you’d sit at the piano to practice Beethoven or slouch over the potter’s wheel to perfect a pot or vase, so must we as writers engage in the practice of our work, our art, our call.
In the middle of my first Amherst Writers and Artists workshop the proverbial light bulb began to blink brightly in my brain and I knew this was work I had to do and had to share with others. Write to the Edge workshops offer all of us that creative collective, the encouraging environment, the magic that is sometimes called the Muse. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,” Antoine de Saint Exupery’s Little Prince tells us. “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Our stories tear off the blindfolds and bring us to what is essential…Come see what I mean.
...definitely an opening to a new chapter for me...loved the non-judgmental atmosphere...you led graciously and fearlessly - Debra M., Issaquah, WA
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