Writing It Up in the Garden is LEGAL NOW!
Weekly Workshops for Autumn 2023!
Hello, friends!
”Legal” because this is our twenty-first year of offering writing workshops here at Writing It Up in the Garden. Since 2003, we’ve grown from two weekly classes to, currently, six, with two instructors, even! I only have a few more spots for Writing It Up in the Garden’s Fall Season of weekly workshops. You can snag one still in the Wednesday 12:30-2:30 group or the Thursday 12:30-2:30 group. We will begin our 10-week trimester the week of September 19 and run groups until the end of November.
Generative groups begin with a prompt, and then we write for an hour. The second hour, we take turns sharing what we’ve just written. Responses are focused on the merits of the new work we’ve just heard. No negative or prescriptive critique will be given. All generative workshops are either on Zoom or in Little Blue with a hybrid option.
Weeding & Pruning is manuscript-based, and we meet on Zoom. These groups require a commitment to submit a set number of pages, as well as critiquing your classmates’ pieces in writing. For more information, email me: nerissand@gmail.com. Both Elaine (Fridays 12:30-2:30) and I (Tuesdays 12:30-2:30) have one spot left in each of these groups.
All times below are Eastern Time.
Tuesday Weeding & Pruning: 12:30-2:30pm starting September 19, 2023 Led by Nerissa Nields by application only, one spot available.
Tuesday Evening: 6-8pm starting September 19, 2023 (Songwriting, Poetry, Prose) FULL!
Wednesday afternoons: 12:30-2:30pm starting September 20, 2023 (all genres) two spots leftWednesday evenings: 7-9pm starting September 20, 2023 (Songwriting, Poetry, Prose) (FULL)
Thursday Fiction: 12:30-2:30pm starting September 21, 2023 (Fiction or Fiction-adjacent) two spots available
Friday Weeding & Pruning:12:30-2:30pm starting September 22, 2023 Led by Elaine Apthrop, by application only. One spot available.
Morning Seeding & Tending
Morning Seeding & Tending is a low-stress, no-share writing and accountability group. We meet Monday-Friday, 10-11am Eastern Time. We begin each morning with a quick greeting, teeny prompt (quotation/poem fragment which I then email to all members), then set our intentions in the chat. We write with sound muted, and usually people turn their cameras off. If you arrive late, no problem. At 11, we’ll say a quick goodbye. You can choose to leave early. Or you can keep writing long after the group officially ends. Some people come daily, some weekly, some whenever they can.
After signing up, you’ll get a welcome email and thereafter a Zoom link which changes every month. Pay by the month, via subscription, or a month at a time via my website. The longer you commit to write with us, the cheaper it is. The month begins whenever you start payments.
By website, it's $25 per month. This is a great way to try it out.
By Ko-Fi subscription, it's $20 per month, with automatic payment (like Patreon).
By paid subscription to my Substack newsletter, it's $20 per month, with automatic payment.
OR the very cheapest is to subscribe via Substack newsletter for an entire year, which is $200 upfront--but that makes the cost between $16-17 per month.
Best of all? You can start right now!