The Veteran’s Writing Collective encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest, positive, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military, veterans, retirees, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome.
Join us on Wednesday, June 18th, 2025, via Zoom for a conversation with Amanda Churchill,...
Register Last Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm cst via Zoom For ages 13-19 years old...
These peer-driven workshops, held the last Monday of each month, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry, flash fiction, and short creative non-fiction.
Are you a writer looking for a fresh approach to sex scenes? Learn how to write memorable sex scenes that fit your characters and your plot! This is a frank, fun, respectful workshop about the “birds and the bees,” and what goes on between the sheets, or on the kitchen floor, or maybe out at sea. This class allows participants to explore the many ways of writing about sex no matter the genre.
If you find revision to be an intimidating and messy process, then this class is for you! In this two-part lecture, writers at any stage in their craft will learn practical revision strategies to help refine and reimagine their works-in-progress. We will discuss how to assess what needs to be revised, including beginnings and endings, scenes and plots, syntax and diction, metaphors and more. Then, we’ll explore visual organization tools such as note cards, sticky notes, and highlighters.
Learn the elements of a thrilling mystery that leaves readers on the edge of their seats. Over the course of four weeks, participants will discuss the common characteristics of effective mystery/suspense fiction and will set goals for their work in class. We’ll cover inciting incidents and protagonists, review plot points and antagonists, and explore how to create suspense and mystery in writing. Participants will lay the groundwork for their own riveting story.
The Veteran’s Writing Collective encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest, positive, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military, veterans, retirees, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome.
In this 4-week workshop, best-selling author and founder of the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreats in Montana, Laura Munson will lead students through exercises to uncover wonder and inject it into their own writing. Using Laura’s memoir The Wild Why: Stories and Teachings to Uncover Your Wonder as a guide, we will explore teaching-spirited stories and writing prompts, all centered on illuminating our true self-expression and the wonder it spawns.
Register Last Saturday of Every Month 12-1:30pm cst via Zoom For ages 13-19 years old...
These peer-driven workshops, held the last Monday of each month, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry, flash fiction, and short creative non-fiction.
In this 4-week workshop, best-selling author and founder of the acclaimed Haven Writing Retreats in Montana, Laura Munson will lead students through exercises to uncover wonder and inject it into their own writing. Using Laura’s memoir The Wild Why: Stories and Teachings to Uncover Your Wonder as a guide, we will explore teaching-spirited stories and writing prompts, all centered on illuminating our true self-expression and the wonder it spawns.
