Our COURSES
We offer genre-focused workshops that cover every angle of the craft modern writers need to know. Our professional workshop leaders are dedicated to helping you reach your writing goals!
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Push Your Imagination Further
Your imagination is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger and more powerful it is. But, you have to use it properly to get it to work in your favor. Just hitting the mind gym isn’t enough, and will give you uneasy and uninteresting results. But if you start out with a…
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Six Powerful Exercises to Polish Your Prose
Join Apex Magazine Managing Editor Rebecca Treasure to dive deep into six vital elements of writing fiction. Do powerful exercises to improve your skills with This webinar is lecture based but active participation is encouraged! Date: February 28, 2025Time: 2PM EST | 1PM CST | 12PM MST | 11AM PST | 7PM UTCLength: 75 minutes…
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Sellable Short Stories: What Editors Want (and What to Avoid)
Get practical tools to elevate your short fiction, as well as a roadmap for getting your work into magazines, anthologies, podcasts and more.
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Character-Based Worldbuilding
When it comes to worldbuilding, many methods require writers to conduct extensive research to learn about the world they are creating. While creating lists and building a Wiki can be helpful in preparing to write, it can also hinder creativity for writers who prefer a more spontaneous approach.
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Use Your Imagination, Or Someone Else Will Use It For You
Do you know who’s using your imagination? For most of us, it’s the entire mediated world—every TV show you’ve seen, book you’ve read, joke you’ve heard, or game you’ve played. As writers we need to eschew the clichés that spring from these echos hiding in what we believe is our own imaginations.
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Playful Character Creation: Invent Compelling People For Your Stories
Learn new and theatrical techniques for inventing compelling imaginary people with National Book Award-winning author William Alexander.
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The Building Blocks: Every Word, a Story
In this workshop, we will examine the value of every word to its sentence and every sentence to the ultimate tone, mood, and power of a piece of short fiction.
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The Art of Silence: Writing a Strong Query Letter
You can’t sell a novel with an excellent query letter, but you can certainly earn a rejection letter with a poor one. In this workshop, we’ll examine what query letters are actually for. We’ll go over line by line your pre-submitted letter with the goal of you leaving with a letter that’s ready to send.
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Mastering Structure And Plot: The Blueprint Of A Story
Gain a concrete understanding of structure and plot to use in your short stories, novelettes, novellas, and novels. Get new tools for addressing problems with structure and plot, including Lavie’s own personal checklist.