2024-2025 Adult Creative Writing Workshop

This workshop is now full.
You may sign up for the wait list here: https://www.decaturlibrary.org... and you will be contacted if spots become available.

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Are you interested in expressing yourself in writing? Do you aspire to publish? Do you enjoy fiction, poetry, non-fiction, or memoir?

Sign-up for the Adult Creative Writing Workshop this fall and practice your craft with other writers and guidance of an experienced instructor.

The workshop will be a venue for DPL patrons to share their writing, improve their craft, and discuss literature and
the artistic practice. Participants may submit fiction, poetry, non-fiction or memoir and as a class we will discuss
the peculiarities of each genre. Submitted writing will be discussed and critiqued by the class as a group, as well
as in individual written comments given both by the instructor and the members of the class. Particular attention
will be given in class to the sentence-to-sentence and word-to-word choices made by participants, and the ways
these choices relate to the reading experience and the meaning of the work. Short reading may be used to help
inform the discussions of style and genre. Writing exercises may also be given, and surprise guests may give short
lectures and take Q&A.

The first session of the workshops will meet on November 12.

Workshop instructor Tye Pemberton has an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, has worked in publishing with the Janklow & Nesbit Associates Literary Agency, and has taught creative writing and literature at the Walters Cultural Arts Center in Portland, Oregon and at Columbia University. His fiction has appeared in Versal, Watchword, and We Still Like, and his non-fiction has appeared in The Rumpus, BookTrib, and PopMatters. He is the cowriter of the short film Annie Oakley, and the web series Quick Brick Tips.