Writing Workshops
The art of description: Details that matter with Jana Laiz
South Berkshire Friends Meeting House 280 State Road, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesThe use of adjectives and descriptive language...the key to a great story. This might just be the hardest thing to do...adding enough description to make us want more, but not too much so the story gets lost in the details.
KICKSTART Your Writing Project
South Berkshire Friends Meeting House 280 State Road, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesTHIS IS A MAKEUP FROM JANUARY! Are you stuck!? Has your writing project come to a halt? In this interactive workshop we will rev up our writing and get going again! Writer's block got you down? Want to finish (or start) that writing project? Well, here's the place to do it! Using a series of […]
Writing Purposeful Memoir: Fueling Our Creative Fires with Jennifer Browdy
South Berkshire Friends Meeting House 280 State Road, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesIn this three-hour workshop, we'll write and share about our passions, asking: what lights your fires, and what holds you back from stepping fully into the power that passion can ignite?
Writing for children and YA with Jana Laiz
South Berkshire Friends Meeting House 280 State Road, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesHave you ever wanted to write a book for young people? Think it's too easy? Too difficult? In this interactive workshop, we will demystify this genre and get you writing from your heart, because if you don't, kids will know! Limited to 8 writers. Register here.
Moving from History to Herstory to Yourstory: Memoir Workshop with Jennifer Browdy
South Berkshire Friends Meeting House 280 State Road, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesIn this three-hour workshop, open to women writers at any stage of their writing journey, we'll focus in on your matrilineal line, taking stock both of official history and personal "herstory" as we move towards a deeper understanding of what matters most now: YOUR story. Bring photos of your female ancestors if you have them, […]
Writing From Charlemagne – A Workshop for Writers and Others
Bascom Lodge 3 Summit Road, Adams, MA, United StatesWriting from Charlemagne - A Workshop for Writers and Others "You must carry mountains in your brain” Oliver Wendell Holmes told Herman Melville about writing in the Berkshires. Join award-winning local author and Arrowhead Writer-In-Residence Jana Laiz atop Herman Melville’s mountain muse at Bascom Lodge. Melville called Mt. Greylock “Charlemagne," the king of mountains and it […]
Fall 2018 Memoir Intensive Series with Jennifer Browdy
South Berkshire Friends Meeting House 280 State Road, Great Barrington, MA, United StatesIf you are a woman who is actively working on a memoir, this series is for you! Whether you’re just at the beginning of your memoir journey, or approaching the end, you’ll benefit from regular meetings with a warm circle of peers, under the expert guidance of award-winning author and teacher Jennifer Browdy. Using Jennifer’s […]
Making Magic on the Mountain: Purposeful memoir as a portal to the transformative power of memory and imagination
Bascom Lodge 3 Summit Road, Adams, MA, United StatesThere was a reason J.K. Rowling chose Mount Greylock, the highest mountain in Massachusetts, as the site for an American school of wizardry. Indeed, visionary writers like Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau always sought out the peak of Mount Greylock as a place of creative inspiration, and shamans the world over know […]
Giving Thanks: Memoir Workshop at Norman Rockwell Museum with Jennifer Browdy
Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Road, Stockbridge, MA, United StatesThrough a variety of thought-provoking prompts, this pre-Thanksgiving writing workshop will invite reflection on people, places and events for which we have been grateful at different stages of our lives. Author and educator Jennifer Browdy, Ph.D. will share her insights on the importance of purposeful memoir as a tool for cultivating gratitude for our past, […]
Character, Voice and Story
Award-winning author Jana Laiz has been published in a wide range of genres, from young adult fantasy to historical biography, including the timely novel, Weeping Under This Same Moon, a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Gold Medalist and an International Reading Association Notable Book. A prolific workshop leader, Jana will give flex your writing muscles and […]