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Writers Workshops
Call (954) 357-7401 to register by credit card, or send a check payable to Florida Center for the Book, Broward County Library, 100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Please include your telephone number and the name of the workshop. Pre-registration required.
PLEASE REGISTER AT LEAST 7 DAYS BEFORE THE WORKSHOP MEETS.
In order to take place, each workshop needs a minimum number of students.
Florida Center for the Book Writers Workshops
Winter 2008
Scholarship Opportunities
DEADLINE: January 22, 2008
The Writers Network of South Florida sponsors a scholarship for each of the listed workshops. To apply for these merit-based scholarships, send a two-page, double-spaced writing sample to WNSF Scholarships, 100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301. Please indicate which workshops you are applying for.
The deadline for submissions is January 22. Recipients will be notified by phone by January 25.
Call 954-357-7401 to register by credit card, or send a check payable to Florida Center for the Book, Broward County Library, 100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301.
Please include your telephone number and the name of the workshop.
Pre-registration required.
Writers Critique Group
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter." ~James Michener
Dates: 1st & 3rd Tuesday of the month
Time: 6:45 - 8:45pm
Location: Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale
Fee: Free
Join a group of committed writers who meet to critique and support one another in their current writing projects. This ongoing group focuses on both fiction and nonfiction. Contact Sue Alspach at salspach58@hotmail.com for more information.
Word Play ~ Having Fun Writing Children's Books with Gloria Rothstein
"Shorth is better than length." ~ Dr. Seuss
Date: Tuesdays, January 29 - February 26
Time: 7 to 9pm
Location: Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale
Fee: $75 in advance, $80 at the door
 Bring your sense of silly, your imagination and your playful spirit to this hands-on workshop. Participate in ten-minute writing exercises, read aloud critiques, and book discussions. Have fun playing with words, thinking in pictures, and developing new ideas. Get ready to examine word choices, make up words, and look at the language of children's books in a whole new way.
Gloria Rothstein teaches writing workshops, critiques manuscripts, and speaks at conferences. She's the author of Sheep Asleep (Harper Collins) - a book recommended by PBS Parents; Real-Life Writing Activities (Scholastic); "Curious George" cartoons; and more. She also has publishing credits with Harcourt, Holt, Random House, Children's Television Workshop, and others.
The Power of Choice in Poetry with Lucille Shulklapper
"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day." ~ Emily Dickinson
Date: Wednesdays, February 6 - March 5
Time: 7 to 9pm
Location: Northwest Regional Library 3151 University Drive, Coral Springs
Fee: $75 in advance, $80 at the door
 Poetry thrives on possibility and choice. Explore the use of poetic devices in poems of published poets, their structure and surprise, before experimenting with exercises that will stretch your own range of poetic possibilities. Entice your muse with practical and playful ideas. Fearlessness is the only prerequisite.
Lucille Shulklapper's poetry and fiction appear in numerous journals, anthologies, and three poetry chapbooks: What You Cannot Have, The Substance of Sunlight and Godd, It's Not Hollywood. A picture book, Out of Bed, Fred will be released in October, 2008.
You Gotta Have Heart! Writing Emotion in Fiction: Bringing Out the Depth in Your Characters and Scenes with Norma Davids
"One learns through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect." ~ Mark Twain
Date: Saturday, February 9
Time: 10am to 1pm
Location: Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale
Fee: $40 in advance, $45 at the door
 In this "hands-on" workshop, you will learn how to: deepen character by infusing genuine emotion, make your scenes more memorable, easily access your emotions to use in your writing, recognize/avoid clichés in emotional writing and develop characters that readers will "feel."
Norma Davids is an actress/director/writer and private acting coach for theatre and film. Throughout her career, she's worked with legendary figures like Jose Ferrer and Barbara Streisand. She has taught creative writing and speech classes to hundreds of students. As a member of Actor's Equity, Screen Actor's Guild, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, her workshops have been a motivating tool for both actors and writers, alike.
Writing Successful Query Letters with Christine Kling
"Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write…" ~ Nicholas Sparks
Date: Saturday, February 23
Time: 10am to 1pm
Location: Main Library, 100 S. Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale
Fee: $40 in advance, $45 at the door
 In today's busy and competitive publishing world you have exactly one page to introduce yourself to the overworked and jaded agents who are looking for the next BIG BOOK. Join novelist Christine Kling to look at the structure of successful query letters and learn some of the Do's and Don'ts that can make the difference in determining whether your query winds up in the round file or the reply-to file.
Christine Kling is the author of the suspense novels featuring Florida's female tugboat captain, Seychelle Sullivan. The fourth book in the series, Wrecker's Key, was released in February 2007. When she finished her first novel, Surface Tension, Christine found her first agent with her very first query letter. She complete of MFA in creative writing at Florida International University, and Kling now lives aboard her thirty-three foot sailboat TALESPINNER in Fort Lauderdale.
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