WRITING FICTION: Craft Lessons by Adriena Dame Adriena Dame, author of The Moo: Stories and a Novella, publisher of 94 Creations literary journal, and creative writing professor at Spalding University, is bringing her classroom into the studio with a variety of hands-on, affordable, rock your writing world, fiction explorations! Each class must have at least four students to make it to the table. How much do the classes cost? $30 per class, or $150 for a bundle of six classes. #1 Building Charac …

The SW Ohio Writers & Poets Group offers hands-on workshops and seminars for writers interested in learning a variety of creative techniques to improve their short fiction and poetry. Led by experienced teacher and workshop leader, active writer, and published poet Porter Manring, the single event and multi-week workshops put on by SW Ohio Writers & Poets are held in a comfortable studio and creative arts space in Liberty Twp, just off Rt 4 east of Hamilton, 25 miles from downtown Cinti and 30 m …

Hardly anyone reaches adulthood without learning to be silent—to hold it in, suck it up, and put on a smile to please. But we often reach a point in our lives where our truth must come out. We may be afraid, but the need to speak, to break our silence is unbearable and we must find a way to have courage to say how we feel. Our truth may be powerful or shocking. It could be an insight of inspiration that comes to us in a whisper. Or, maybe we aren’t ready to speak yet, but feel the need to liste …