Writing Classes for Teachers
Writing Classes for Teachers, a program of Richard Hugo House co-sponsored by Powerful Writers, is a series of classes that helps teachers develop and nurture a love of (and comfort with) writing while generating lessons and strategies for strengthening their writing instruction.
Hugo House instructors and other guest writers will teach lessons in narrative and non-narrative forms, allowing for plenty of writing time. Participants will then work together to adapt the lesson for their own teaching.
All classes take place in the Hugo House Cabaret. Teachers of all grade levels are invited and all sessions are free. Information about the next session of Writing Classes for Teachers is below.
Sound, Sentence and Form: Borrowing Moves from the Masters
with Waverly Fitzgerald
Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 5-7 p.m. in Richard Hugo House's Cabaret
In this workshop, we'll explore ways you can borrow moves from master writers and apply them to your own writing. During our two hours together, we'll undertake four writing exercises designed to help you explore qualities of language (rhythm, sound and sentence structure) and consider possible forms (story shape and genre). If you have a piece or poem you've been pondering, this is a great opportunity to put it through its paces. You can also bring a master work by a favorite author with you; examples will be provided if you prefer. Each participant will leave with new writing and story ideas plus four exercises you can use on your own or with your students.
About Waverly Fitzgerald
Waverly Fitzgerald is a writer and teacher, editor and writing coach. She is currently teaching the Master Class in Prose at Richard Hugo House and will teach her popular Nonfiction Book Proposal class for Field's End in winter. She has written eight novels (four published) and a non-fiction book, Slow Time. In 2009, she was a resident at Hedgebrook and a Jack Straw Fellow while working on a new book of nature essays.
Questions? Email Arni Adler at writingclassforteachers@gmail.com.
