Writing Heights Writers Association offers two monthly classes on craft, editing, marketing and more. Active and Sustaining members get these classes free, but they are also open to the public for a reasonable rate and are taught by knowledgable, experienced, and friendly instructors. Can’t make the class? No problem! When you register, you also get a recording of the class that you can access for up to a year.
This Month’s Classes:
For years scholars and writers and translators have wrangled about what truly constitutes the poetic form haiku. The short, image-oriented, nature-oriented poems originating from Japan are theoretically well-known in popular culture. The truth is that it is nearly impossible to adapt Eastern forms of poetry to English.
In this workshop, we will explore this anglicized form. We will find ways to bring all our skills to bear on the brief and beautiful haiku, adding our own personal traditions to this utterly different set of poetics that we will make our own while respecting its history. We will use not just image but the music of the English poem with assonance and consonance and alliteration. We can, if we want, use meter. We will not try to be Japanese. We will become English-language poets pouring ourselves into a small, exquisite porcelain cup.
Going viral isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, but the experience came with some valuable lessons. In this workshop, author Lauren Newman Lipp will share her story of going viral and what it taught her about author branding. If you want to utilize social media for your author brand but not get caught up in the negativity online or waste hours scrolling, this class is for you. Walk away with the tools needed to start building a cohesive and aesthetically-pleasing author brand across multiple social media platforms, as well as tips for how to reach your target audience and navigate the online space productively..
Interested in Teaching a Class or Workshop?
We’re a community based organization and believe that sharing information and knowledge helps us all to grow and learn. If you’re an author, editor, literary agent, professor, or just have a really cool specialty that you think would benefit authors and poets (crime scene investigation, ecologist, lawyer, screenwriter, visual artist or musician), feel free to send us a class proposal and we’ll market your class and pay you for your time!