Play and Screenwriting Workshop
with Jeff Sweet
The author of The Dramatist's Toolkit (now in its fourth printing), Jeffrey
Sweet's scripts for TV movies, primetime drama and comedy and daytime have been
broadcast on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and A&E, in the process winning him a Writers Guild
of America Award and an Emmy nomination. His plays have won the Outer Critics Circle
Award, a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, and an American Theatre Critics
Association playwriting award (and two other nominations). He currently teaches writing
for the Actors Studio. He will be giving an intensive weekend workshop, with morning and
afternoon sessions, in play and screenwriting on February 8th and 9th, from
12-5 PM each day. Contact
Fiction Workshop
with Simone Zelitch
Simone Zelitch is a local Philadelphia fiction writer. She received a B.A. from
Wesleyan and an M.F.A. from University of Michigan. She has taught at Southern Illinios
University, University of Veszprem in Hungary, Community college of Philadelphia, and is
currently a Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts at the University of the Arts. Her work has
appeared in the minnesota review, Daughters of Nyx, and The Long Story,
among other places. Black Heron Press published her 1991 novel, The Confession of Jack
Straw.
The Fiction Workshop will be held weekly on Sunday evenings, 6 PM, at the
Writers House, beginning January 26th. It is open to a limit of ten participants. The
workshop will include intensive review of particpants original work, as well as some
exercises and outside reading.
If you are intersted, please
Poetry and Submitting Workshop
with Mary Colangelo
Mary Colangelo is a Poetry Editor for the Painted Bride Quarterly. She has
studied at Temple University with Toby Olson, Susan Stewart, Sonia Sanchez, David Bradley,
and Charles Fuller. Among other honors, she has received the Sparrow Award for Poetry
(Indiana State, 1995), the Writers Unlimited Annual Internationa Literary Competition
Award (1995), and a mentorship with Pablo Medina. She has published in the Ariel
1996 anthology and various national literary periodicals and journals.
The following is an overview of the workshop:
- This workshop will take the student from writing and rewriting his or her work all the
way through the submission process. What editors look for will also be covered.
- Ten Monday Workshops from 6 pm to 8 pm, beginning on January 27th through each Monday
and ending on the 7th of April. The workshop will not meet the Monday of Spring Recess
(March 10th).
- This workshop period will give students enough time to prepare poetry for submission,
send out queries to the selected periodicals or journals they wish to submit to, receive
their guidelines, prepare materials to guideline specifications, and submit their work to
the chosen publications. (
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