3rd Quarter 2023
Creating Impactful Characters
Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 10am – 12pm
Impactful stories start with impactful characters. Every book you’ve ever fallen in love with has at least one character you continue to think about long after you read the last page. In this workshop, we discuss some important aspects of character development that make your characters unforgettable and leave your readers begging for a sequel.
Instructor: Karli Land
Owner, Colorful Crow Publishing
Founder, Calhoun-Cartersville Area Writers
Writers Workshop $35
Karli Land has been fascinated with written word since childhood. Through books and stories, she has escaped many grown-up days and hidden herself deep in fairytales.
She grew up climbing orange trees in the small, quaint town of Frostproof, Florida and now resides in Northwest Georgia. While she misses the sandy beaches, she has grown accustomed to watching four seasons come and go each year.
In 2014, she founded the Calhoun Area Writers and proudly watched this small group of friends blossom into a tremendous support system for writers. This year she announced the addition of a sister group- The Cartersville Area Writers.
Karli owns and operates Colorful Crow Publishing, a traditional publishing house that seeks to help talented authors build and promote an author brand to assist in book sales and a lifelong successful writing career.
She enjoys writing in many genres. Her latest book, The Day After Yesterday, is a story of caretaking from the perspective of a daughter caring for her mother in the throes of Alzheimer’s Disease.
While she hopes to sit humbly one day on a best-sellers list, she will settle for a smile or kind word from a stranger.
6-Week Narrative Non-Fiction
Mondays, September 11 – October 16, 2023 at 7pm via Zoom
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.
Instructor: Jim Auchmutey
Author,
Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America
The Class of ’65: A Student, a Divided Town, and the Long Road to Forgiveness and
Writer & Editor (retired), Atlanta-Journal Constitution
6-Week, Writers Workshop $300
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 2023
Instructor: Bill Walsh
Director, Creative Writing Reinhardt University
Editor, James Dickey Review
Writers Workshop $35
Top 15 Things You Need to Know to be a Successful Writer
Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 10am – 12pm
1st Quarter 2023
BookLogix is a full-service book printer and publisher.*
Single Session $30
Both Sessions $55
I’ve Finished Writing. Now What?
Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 10am – 1pm