Workshops

Sign up for CCCC Creative Writing Program Classes with Marjorie!

To Register, Call 919-545-8044

June 16  – Saturday Workshop-  Memoir: Writing the Times of Your Life

9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Come ready to write! We’ll put pen to paper and generate pages about pivotal moments in your childhood, coming of age, and transitions—the richest sources of material for memoir.  You’ll jump over blocks, get useful feedback, and leave with home assignments and recommendations for expanding and structuring your material, whether toward a goal of submitting, writing a memoir, or keeping for family records.

July 14 – Saturday Workshop – Strategies for the Writing Life I

9:30 am – 4:30 pm

A new session of Hudson’s popular workshop that helps new writers get their bearings in the writing world, helps intermediate writers refine and act on goals–from personal accomplishment to publication–and helps all participants find communities of support for their work.

Kitchen Table Writers Workshops  – Spring 2012

Tuesday Mornings 10:30 am – 12:30 am
Rosemary House B&B, Pittsboro, NC

Thursday Afternoons 1:30 – 3:30 pm
McIntyre’s Fine Books, Pittsboro, NC

For new writers, blocked writers, experienced writers looking for a boost, my Kitchen Table Workshop methods help you generate pages and pages of new writing, dig deep to write fiction or memoir or poetry, join a joyful community of support, laugh and cry,  all in the same session! Registration is now open for Spring 2012 classes.

Tuesday Class Dates:  April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5

Thursday Class Dates: April 19, 26, May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, June 7

Fee: $125 for 8 sessions of 2 hours, with optional individual session for additional fee.

To register, contact: Hudson.marjorie@gmail.com

More Workshops, Conferences, Readings, and Classes:

April 14  – Featured Author, Workshop Leader, Carolina Writers Conference – Wadesboro, NC

May 10 – Reading at the Regulator, 7 pm, Durham, NC

May 18-19 – Featured Author, Blue Ridge Bookfest – Hendersonville, NC

May 25, 10:15 – 12 noon – Wonderland Book Club, Cameron Village Library – Raleigh, NC

May 25, 7 – 9 pm – Reading with Songs inspired by Accidental Birds – With Susan Ketchin – Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro, NC

July 27-28 -North Carolina Writers Conference, honoring Janet Lembke, Comfort Inn – New Bern, NC

Fall Classes at CCCC Creative Writing Program:

Class: Memoir: Works in Progress

Dates: 8 Wednesdays, August 22 – October 3

Time: 6:00 – 8:30 pm

Memoir is the intimate art, and this class will create a community of support for refining works in progress and generating new material. You will learn craft techniques to help you structure your work, tell your deepest stories, and move toward completing a piece, whether for publication or family records.

 

Workshop: Fiction Craft: Beginnings and Endings

Date: Saturday, August 25, 2012

Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

You’re working on a fiction story, but it’s not quite there. What absolutely must be in the first paragraphs? What must be in your ending? And how in the world do you decide? There are so many options, there’s so much to say in a few words. The delicate balancing act of beginnings and endings is one of the most powerful tools in the fiction writer’s toolbelt. We’ll explore how master writers do it, and try some exercises to refine your own work. Bring a draft you are working on.

Marjorie Hudson is author of Searching for Virginia Dare, a North Carolina Notable Book, and Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, named Best Short Story Collection of 2011 by Perpetual Folly. Her writing has been published widely in literary journals and has won many honors, including a 2012 NC Arts Council Fellowship. She has been editing and coaching writers for 30 years, and now leads writing classes at colleges, conferences, festivals, cafes, and her own Kitchen Table Workshops. See her website: www.marjoriehudson.com