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Writers Unlimited (JAN - AUG) - Schedule: 28 Session(s) | F | 1/24/2025-8/29/2025 | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Fee: $48.00
Sessions: 28 | Days: F
Dates: 1/24/2025 - 8/29/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Building: Online only
Room:
Instructor: Gerald Janusz

Participants read their original written work to the group and receive constructive criticism (everything from correcting spelling and punctuation to suggestions for extension of the theme. The genre may be short story, novel, memoir, essay, poetry, or any form you can make-up. Note that this study group meets year-around with time off for holidays

Jerry Janusz, a retired mathematician from the University of Illinois, has led this study group for more than ten years.

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Writing in Your Authentic, Deep Voice - REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.

Fee: $42.00
Sessions: 7 | Days: W
Dates: 4/2/2025 - 5/14/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Building: Morris Lawrence Building- Washtenaw Community Coll
Room: ML-128
Instructor: Kate Zoeger

Freed to write without self-judgment, powerful emotion can emerge on the page to surprise you as well as your readers. Strong emotion is what readers want to experience. When focused on a specific exercise, rather than on trying to write something good, writing something great can happen. We’ll experiment with various concepts from JACK GRAPES’ METHOD WRITING. You’ll find your Authentic Voice and learn to drop into the Deep Voice. Pieces you read aloud for feedback each week can be compiled into an easily made chapbook you can share at our last class. Before becoming a National Board Certified and Mentor Teacher in Los Angeles Public Schools, Kate Zoeger studied with Jack Grapes and recently got his blessing to share his incomparably effective techniques.

Writing Our Stories - REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CLOSED. This class is already in session.

Fee: $42.00
Sessions: 12 | Days: F
Dates: 1/24/2025 - 4/11/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Building: Online only
Room:
Instructor: Janis Price

Participants will learn how to tell the stories of their lives and those of their ancestors. We will meet weekly, and each participant should be prepared to read a story they have written.

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