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4th Quarter 2022
Writing Cookbooks
Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 11am
Susan Puckett is a James Beard-nominated food journalist and editor who has authored or collaborated on more than a dozen books. She was the food editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for nearly 19 years and today, as a freelance writer and editor, contributes to its Food section and other media outlets.
3rd Quarter 2022
$50 / 4 Sessions + Lunch
$15 / 1 Session
$300 / 6 Weeks (1.5 – 2 Hour Sessions)
Writing Children’s Books
Saturday, August 20, 2022
10am – 3pm
Workshop Description
Writing, illustrating, and publishing a book for children is filled with obstacles and hurdles that are unique to being an author for a younger audience. Join Andrea Cassell, Dr. Surishtha Sehgal, JoAnn Dotson, and Andy Runton as these renowned children’s book authors present books for primary students (grades K-3), elementary students (grades 3-5), and middle school students (grades 5-8). Each panelist will share their own journey, creative process, and advice to those wanting to pursue writing children’s books.
6-Week Narrative Non-Fiction
Mondays, Sept 12 – Oct. 17, 2022
7pm via Zoom
Workshop Description
We all know how to tell a story, yet when it comes to writing one, we often become our own worst enemy. We tell readers what to think and feel. We throw in extraneous details because we have them. We telegraph the ending. Memorable stories do not happen in the inverted pyramid of journalism school; they unfold more like the ghost tales we told as kids. In this six-week course, we’ll learn how to recapture that natural sense of storytelling. We’ll study examples, do some writing, critique each other’s work. In fact, more of the class will be a roundtable workshop as opposed to a lecture.
Each week we’ll focus on a different aspect of nonfiction writing: scene and atmosphere, creating memorable characters, conflict and complication, theme and meaning, voice and style. We’ll also explore one of the hottest topics in modern storytelling: the line between fact and fiction, discussing whether a writer can ever take poetic liberties.
This course should be useful for anyone looking to write a book, a memoir, essays, magazine articles, journalism small or large, or better blog posts. All levels of writers are welcome.
Jim Auchmutey is a veteran journalist and author in Atlanta. His most recent book is Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America, chosen as one of ten books all Georgians should read by the Georgia Center for the Book — as was his previous book, The Class of ’65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness. The latter was featured on C-SPAN and was a New York Times best-seller (briefly — you take your bragging rights where you can get them!). Auchmutey was a reporter and editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for almost 30 years, where he was twice named the Cox newspaper chain’s writer of the year and won a James Beard Foundation award for his food writing. He has taught narrative nonfiction writing at the Decatur Writers Studio and has lectured at Wofford College and Georgia State University.
2nd Quarter 2022
June 25
10am – 2pm
Becoming a New Author
Workshop Description
In addition to dozens of blog appearances, he has authored numerous articles and given several interviews devoted to writing and career management for new authors. His short fiction has been published by, among others, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, and Mystery Weekly Magazine. Roger is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Atlanta Writers Club, International Thriller Writers, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Along with several other crime fiction writers, he co-authors the MurderBooks blog at www.murder-books.com. Please visit him at: www.rogerjohnsbooks.com.
1st Quarter 2022
Jan. 22
1:00 – 3:30 PM
$45, per person