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Masters Craft Workshop: Blog as Noun, Blog as Verb - 2/27/12 - Monday

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Hub City Writers Project presents a Masters Craft workshop on blogging with Helen Correll and Ned Barrett.

Please arrive at least five minutes before starting time and your laptop or tablet. Advance registration is required at hubcity.org . Workshops are $25 or $20 for members of the Writers Project. To find out if your membership is current, please email us at info@hubcity.org.

Workshop: Blog as Noun, Blog as Verb
Helen Correll and Ned Barrett
February 27, 7-9pm at The Showroom

Over the last decade, “blog” has become a noun and a verb, both something we keep and something we do. Perhaps you would like to start a blog or improve on the blog you already have. This workshop will explain the benefits of blogging, help you define your blog, and discuss effective blog writing, approaching posts in a way that will attract readers and keep them coming back for more. With a fun and creative approach, you should leave the workshop with several posts written or planned and a direction for your blogging future.

In conjunction with the Spartanburg Writing Project, recertification credits are available to certified k-12 teachers. If you are a teacher and need information about how to qualify, please email Tasha Thomas.

Masters Craft Workshop: First Page to Published - 3/26/12 - Monday

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Hub City Writers Project presents a Masters Craft workshop on fiction writing with Jillian Weise.

Workshop: From First Page to Published
Jillian Weise
March 26, 7-9pm at The Showroom

This workshop, led by Clemson novelist Jillian Weise, will explore common mistakes writers make on the first page of their novels or books of stories. Since many agents, editors and publishers use the first page to decide whether they want to continue reading, you will learn how to catch and keep their attention.

Masters Craft Workshop: How to Really Love a Poem - 4/9/12 - Monday

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Hub City Writers Project presents a Masters Craft workshop on poetry with HUB-BUB Writers-in-Residence Eric Kocher and Travis Blankenship.

Workshop: How to Really Love a Poem
Eric Kocher and Travis Blankenship
April 9, 7-9pm at The Showroom

We all have poems we like, or maybe we don’t know any poems at all. Which ever side of the poem we are on, do we know why? Do you want to know how, then, to really love a poem? We aren’t talking simple, cute and memorable here. But that which makes verse an intrinsic part of us. The poem in our step, our touch, our very breath, flesh and blood. When you really love something, it’s in you. A part of you. As much of an influence on the way you behave as any other. We will discuss the allure of the very poems we love, what makes us love them, what that love does to us, and how we feel that love every time we write. In this workshop, we’ll not only discuss the poems we love, but how we come to love our own poetry. How we write poetry to fall in love with. Please join us as venture from our eyes, to our hearts, to our hands, as we really love poetry.

Masters Craft Workshop: Writing for Newspapers and Magazines - 5/7/12 - Monday

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Hub City Writers Project presents a Masters Craft workshop on feature writing with Will Rothschild.

Workshop: Writing for Newspapers and Magazines
Will Rothschild
May 7, 7-9pm at The Showroom

Newspaper and magazine writing is no different than other forms of writing. The best at the craft invariably are great storytellers. Award-winning journalist Will Rothschild will discuss ways to focus your reporting and use narrative writing techniques to produce stories for newspapers and magazines that value the craft of writing -- and how it can be done on even the tightest of deadlines. This class is not just for journalists -- if you've never written for newspapers or magazines before, this class is a chance to learn how to use your storytelling ability to identify and produce journalistic pieces that editors and readers crave.