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Literary Arts
The art and craft of writing for the screen is a skill that all authors would do well to have in their creative arsenals. This course is designed to guide you through the foundational elements of screenwriting, including structural, stylistic, and formatting archetypes that inform script creation, as you proceed toward a rough first draft screenplay or television pilot as the culmination of our coursework.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Portland
Categories: Screenplay
Level: Any
Class size: Limited
Price: $1,100.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: https://literary-arts.org/event/six-month-screenwriting-i...
Blackbird Studio
Each year, the Studio offers two Foundations classes: Bones of Storytelling & Scene vs. Exposition in the fall and Bones only in the spring. This is your chance to work with the Blackbird staff, get to know our culture, and have a great time learning about story and thinking about what it is you’re writing or what you want to write.
Prerequisites: Students will need to purchase 5 books for class material.
Location: Portland
Categories: Fiction
Level: Any
Course length: 10 sessions (2 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
Price: $455.00
Start date: January, 2023
Attic Institute
This daytime workshop is geared for writers of short stories novels, young adult, as well as memoirs and personal essays. You will leave this workshop with a stronger sense of the many possibilities as well as the many different approaches to scene writing.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Portland
Categories: Book, Essay, Short Story, Memoir
Level: Any
Course length: 6 sessions (2 hours)
Class size: 14
Price: $315.00
Start date: February, 2023
Website: http://atticinstitute.com/node/2788
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Literary Arts
We don’t necessarily need to read your story from birth up to the present day but like any good novel, a good memoir should have a story arc, memorable characters and a narrator who changes in some way by the end of the story. In this class, we will look at techniques for forming that story arc, for developing stronger characters and for writing scenes that will create an impact.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Portland
Categories: Memoir
Level: Any
Course length: 6 sessions (2 hours)
Class size: Limited
Price: $285.00
Start date: August, 2023
Website: https://literary-arts.org/event/fiction-technique-in-memoir/
Literary Arts
Micro-essays, much like poetry, rely on compression, constraint, and exacting language. In this generative course, participants will test the capacity of this miniature form, proving how much can be conveyed in a small space.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Portland
Categories: Essay
Level: Any
Course length: 6 sessions (2 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
Price: $285.00
Start date: June, 2023
Website: https://literary-arts.org/event/craft-under-the-microscop...
Attic Institute
If you’ve been feeling inhibited about your writing, if you’ve been feeling frustrated and bottled-up, Joy of CNF is designed to liberate you. Joy of CNF is the kind of generative experience every writer needs to help them discover, and rediscover, how to write exhilarating, unexpected, illuminating, and gratifying pieces of writing—no matter the gravity of the subject matter.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Portland
Categories: Nonfiction, Essay
Level: Any
Course length: 5 sessions (2 hours)
Class size: 14
Price: $248.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: http://atticinstitute.com/node/2792
Literary Arts
The lyric essay is a form that allows many small fragments to be drawn together to create a whole. A lyric essay might hold memories, research, a bit of poetry, a bit of fiction; it celebrates mixing genres. In this workshop, we will write a series of fragments in response to prompts, and then braid them together into essays.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Portland
Categories: Essay
Level: Beginner
Course length: 4 sessions (2 hours)
Class size: Limited
Price: $190.00
Start date: October, 2023
Website: https://literary-arts.org/event/weaving-small-fragments-t...
Literary Arts
Flash fiction is “short but not shallow; a reduced form used to represent a larger, more complex story; pithy and cogent, brief and pointed, and like the gist of a recollected conversation, it offers the essential truth, if not all the inessential facts.”* In this series, we’ll examine this popular genre through the lens of four acclaimed collections.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Portland
Categories: Short Story
Level: Beginner
Course length: 4 sessions (2 hours)
Class size: Limited
Price: $190.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: https://literary-arts.org/event/flash-fiction-tiny-storie...
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