Course: One-Day Writing Workshop

Date / Time

  • March 3, 2018
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Location

2008-2010 Delancey Place, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103, United States

Registration

  • Registration will open to Delancey Society members on December 12, to members on December 19, and to the public on December 26.
  • Tuition for this reading group is $150.
  • Rosenbach members at the Contributor level and above receive a 10% discount on tuition. Please call 215-732-1600 x123 or email [email protected] to register at the discount.
  • Not a member? We invite you to join upon registration. Click here for more information about membership.

One-Day Writing Workshop

Join Award Winning Authors Liz Moore and Robin Black for a day of creativity, as we explore ways to inspire the writer in you. We’ll do writing exercises, share strategies for structuring a writer’s life, and we’ll also discuss some brief assigned readings, highlighting what they can teach. We promise a day of learning and fun.

About the Instructor

Robin Black‘s story collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, won the Philadelphia Atheneaum Literature Prize, was a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Story Prize, and was named a Best Book of 2010 by numerous publications including the San Francisco Chronicle and the Irish Times. Her novel, Life Drawing, was long listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the Impac Dublin Literature Prize, and the Folio Prize. Her latest is Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing And Life Collide. Robin ‘s essays and stories can be found in such publications as The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, Southern Review, The Rumpus, O. Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler UK, and many other publications. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, and teaches in the Rutgers-Camden MFA Program.

Liz Moore is the author of the novels The Unseen World, The Words of Every Song, and Heft. Her novels have been included on year-end “Best of” lists by The New Yorker, the BBC, Publishers Weekly, Audible, and NPR, and have been published in translation in seven countries. Heft was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and The Unseen World was an ALA Notable Book of 2017. A winner of Philadelphia’s Athenaeum Literary Award and the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, Moore is Writer in Residence at the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she lives. For more about Liz and her work, visit www.lizmoore.net.