Build A Web Site In One Day
Where: The Urban Ashram
When: Saturday, March 26, 2011 @ 11am-5pm
Who: Melanie Feliciano and YOU – send an e-mail to register.
Cost: Donations accepted!
We’ll start the class with the basics of building a Web site by registering a domain name, setting up a hosting account and choosing a platform for easy updating, then bust into a couple [...]
Creative Writing Workshop Begins Jan. 19 at Miami Shores Community Center
Does this look like your 2011 New Years Resolution list?
√ Write the great American Novel
√ Finish that memoir
√ Share your family history
√ Launch your blog
Turn your resolutions into reality and join me at the Miami Shores Community Center for a five-week writing workshop beginning Wednesday, January 19, 2011, at 6:30 p.m.
Click [...]
Le Cafe Writers Workshop
Jan. 7, 2010
W-O-R-Dz written by Angello Pizarro
MWA is proud to begin with a new light, new energy and creative positivity & possibilities– and so we start off 2010 with this Limited workshop for those serious writers who wish to use this new year as a creative springboard!
We plan to begin with a focus on the [...]
School of Comics
The School of Comics, a free, daylong series of seminars sponsored by the Miami Book Fair International will guide the uninitiated through the 21st-Century renaissance of graphic novels, the term of art for what were once known affectionately as comic books. The revival of the format is not only one of the few bright spots [...]
Building Traffic to Your Blog
Advice from the “Turtlefly”
As writers, we are turtles by nature. We like to hide inside our shells and contemplate the patterns. It’s a necessary, and often UGLY process, which is difficult to SHARE with another person who may NOT be a writer, especially if they are…perhaps say, a social butterfly who prefers to be out [...]
Intro to Screenwriting
“Harriette Yahr is a gifted and knowledgeable teacher. In only 4 sessions, I picked up more practical knowledge than I achieved in an entire quarter of a previous writers’ workshop.” John Kramel
by Harriette Yahr
“Intro to Screenwriting” class – this Saturday (9/12) at Miami Light Project. 10:15 – 4:30 pm.
I have also lowered the price due [...]
FCLA’s Creative Writing Courses Begin June 1
Registration is now open for FCLA’s creative writing courses—screenwriting, memoir, environmental writing and flash fiction. Scroll down for details.
Turning Memories into Memoir
Instructor: Neil de la Flor
Six Mondays: June 1-July 6, 2009, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Join this fun and innovative introductory course to memoir writing. Open to everyone, from beginners to advanced writers, this course [...]
Writers’ Workshops for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans
SAN FRANCISCO – New America Media, a major multimedia news organization based in San Francisco, has been awarded a grant to start up a series of writers’ workshops for U.S. military veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. NAM is seeking 20 to 30 veterans from a cross-section of the U.S. military to participate [...]
March 20: Writing Workshop at Borders in Merrick Park
by Angelo Pizarro
It was a relaxing and very enjoyable first workshop in the café at Borders Bookstore on March 6. Some members who read their work to the group were:
Andrea Wonsch, who read parts of a wonderful children’s story she’s working on;
Jim Stafford shared a spellbinding and dark tale of horror;
Naylet Leon shared [...]
Today’s Memoir Blogging Workshop
March 9: The Career(s) of Your Life
I won a New America Media Award for an article I published on Latino.com about a Latina comedienne named Marga Gomez in 2001. I didn’t understand completely WHY at the time, but almost 10 years later, after seeing La Marga perform at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach this [...]
March 6: Want to get inspired to finish that novel or memoir?
Or maybe you just started your writing career and want to be guided by other seasoned writers.
Well, you will get that opportunity by participating in our first “Writers Workshop” of the year. Former magazine editor Angello Pizarro will lead this first session where you will receive feedback and support from other writers.
Please RSVP so we [...]
Breaking into Magazines…and Staying In
Location: The Florida Center for Literary Arts at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
Time: Tuesdays, February 3 – March 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Writing for magazines is not just good for your wallet-it’s great for your resume, especially if you are trying to sell a book-length work. Literary agents and book editors look for a writer’s experience, [...]
Writing Workshops
Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment and Biscayne Writers teamed up to instruct comic book enthusiasts how to create 4-Dimensional Characters for the 21st century on Thursday, April 24, 2008.
How to Start Up a Blog
7 Writing Prompts for ADD Writers
Writers’ Workshops for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans
Fall 2008 Writing Workshops
Want to Get Inspired to Finish That Novel or [...]
Writing + Yoga = Divine Creativity
June 13-15, 2008
This summer, Biscayne Writers is hosting a series of writing workshops.
The first workshop featured Marcela Landres, who told participants how to get the attention of those big NY publishers:
“The workshop has given me a much needed boost in motivation and energy… not to mention self-confidence.” — Mark Springle
“I loved the angels exercise, [...]
Bi-Weekly Critique Groups 7pm History Section of Borders at the Village of Merrick Park
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
The Miami Writers Association, MWA, formerly known as the Society for Latino and Hispanic Writers, hosts critique groups Mondays at 7pm in the HISTORY section of Borders at the Village of Merrick Park.
This is an informal gathering with the purpose of sharing and improving short stories, novel chapters, poems, essays, songs, etc.
Here’s [...]
Stan Lee On Creating 4-Dimensional Characters
Struggling with a scene? Get Inspired. Get Critiqued.
March 25th, 2008
