Due to a scheduling conflict, our Tuesday, September 28 write-in has been canceled. We hope you'll join us on Saturday, October 2 at 2:00 PM for the next one!Log in, sit down, write. It’s that easy.In 2021, the WLT will host two write-ins every month, January through December. These will be 3-hour sessions on Zoom (video … Continue reading 2021 Write-In September 28
Join us for our livestream of this event on our YouTube channel. Please note: This event was originally scheduled for Thursday, July 22nd. The new date is Thursday, September 30th. Most of our programming discusses topics on the craft and business of writing, but we don’t often get to talk about what it’s like to be … Continue reading WLT On the Writing Life: “Writing Through Difficult Times” with Laekan Zea Kemp
Log in, sit down, write. It’s that easy. In 2021, the WLT will host two write-ins every month, January through December. These will be 3-hour sessions on Zoom (video off, audio off). No speaker or presentation, but your friendly WLT staff will welcome you at the start and will check back in at the end. … Continue reading 2021 Write-In October 2
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. How do we begin writing personal stories of trauma or loss? In this three-hour course, memoirist, essayist and editor, Cinelle Barnes, teaches writing difficult stories that involve trauma or loss. We'll explore questions like: How do we … Continue reading “Boundaries & Strategies for Writing Difficult Stories” with Cinelle Barnes
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." - Emily Dickinson For this latest WLT On the Craft of Writing, we're talking poetry with two of our favorite poets: Usha Akella and Kirk Wilson, both with new collections out. In I Will Not Bear You … Continue reading WLT On the Craft of Writing: “Writing Poetry”
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. The experience is specific; the emotions are universal. If there is nothing new under the sun, how do you write romances that are fresh and different? How do you approach fictional relationships so that they come across … Continue reading “The Specific is the Universal: Writing Authentic Love Stories” with Sherry Thomas
Texas Writes is a statewide program that brings accomplished authors to rural libraries for a half day of presentations and panel discussions focused on the craft of writing. Our Menard, TX event features Meg Gardiner presenting on "Killer Plots: Building Tension & Creating Conflict in Fiction" and Charlotte Gullick presenting on "Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall: … Continue reading Texas Writes in Menard, TX
Log in, sit down, write. It’s that easy. In 2021, the WLT will host two write-ins every month, January through December. These will be 3-hour sessions on Zoom (video off, audio off). No speaker or presentation, but your friendly WLT staff will welcome you at the start and will check back in at the end. … Continue reading 2021 Write-In October 12
It's time again for our Monthly Member Meet-up! Have you been wanting to meet another like-minded writer to share critiques with, or interested in creating a writing group? The WLT Monthly Meet-up is a great chance to mix and mingle with fellow writers. Our hope with these meet-ups is to help facilitate writerly connections with … Continue reading Member Meet-up October 2021
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. This class is a part of the Fuel Your Writing Practice online class package. For most writers, the struggle with writer’s block goes hand in hand with our attempts to write, but we do not have to … Continue reading “Banish the Block! Moving Past Fear and Finding Inspiration in Your Writing” with Stacey Swann
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. Want to learn to use Twitter as a writer--not just to promote yourself but to engage in the literary community? An active social media presence is practically required for writers in the twenty-first century. Twitter is the … Continue reading “How to Make Twitter a Writer’s Best Friend” with Richard Santos
This month, join us for the second conversation in our two-part conversation with debut novelists Alex McElroy, Stacey Swann, and Monica West. In April, we spoke to these three authors about "The Road to Publication." (You can view that conversation here.) We're excited to welcome them back - six months later - to talk about … Continue reading October Third Thursday: “Debut Fiction: The Big (Publication) Day and Beyond”
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. Let's dive into crafting the most frightening thrills and chills on the page. As Austin’s favorite author and filmmaker Owen Egerton likes to say, a horror movie is any movie that makes the viewer feel unsafe—typically because … Continue reading “Horror Writing: Haunted Houses, Haunted Bodies, Haunted Babies” with Jessica Bross
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. Learn how to move readers with the details. In this course, with Houston’s Poet Laureate Emeritus, you will practice honing in on your ability to heighten your voice by curating new details. Whether poem or short story, … Continue reading “It’s All in the Details: Tapping into Visceral Imagery” with Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
Join us for a special WLT hosted event during Lit Crawl at the Texas Book Festival!SWIPE WRITE: The Texas Author Match GameHave you been looking for love in all the wrong pages? Tired of blind dates with books that go nowhere? Are you ready for that next great read that really gets you? Join us for this … Continue reading WLT@TBF: Lit Crawl Happy Hour
Every November, we bring our writing time and our writing community together for dedicated writing meet-ups throughout the month. Join us for ten virtual sessions, three hours each, thirty hours total. Log in, sit down, write. It’s that easy. These will be 3-hour sessions on Zoom (video off, audio off). No speaker or presentation, but … Continue reading 2021 Write-In November 1
Every November, we bring our writing time and our writing community together for dedicated writing meet-ups throughout the month. Join us for ten virtual sessions, three hours each, thirty hours total. Log in, sit down, write. It’s that easy. These will be 3-hour sessions on Zoom (video off, audio off). No speaker or presentation, but … Continue reading 2021 Write-In November 2
About the event: A great literary translator combines a passion for foreign literature, deep knowledge of a foreign language, and writing versatility. After all, literary translators are writers called upon to recreate another writer's ideas and style in a different language. What does it take to translate literature well, and what is different about publishing … Continue reading WLT Off the Beaten Craft: “Literature in Translation”
$49 for Members $109 for Non-Members All registrants will have access to the class recording for one month. This class is a part of the Fuel Your Writing Practice online class package. Do you ever start a manuscript and end up lost in your own story? Or perhaps you know what is supposed to happen … Continue reading “Write Before You Write: Outlining, Planning, and Plotting” with Jennifer Ziegler
Texas Writes is a statewide program that brings accomplished authors to rural libraries for a half day of presentations and panel discussions focused on the craft of writing. Our Buchanan Dam, TX event features Rachel Starnes presenting on "Problems of Memory in Memoir" and Julie Poole presenting on "Nature Poetry: A Field Guide to Capturing … Continue reading Texas Writes in Buchanan Dam, TX
Every November, we bring our writing time and our writing community together for dedicated writing meet-ups throughout the month. Join us for ten virtual sessions, three hours each, thirty hours total. Log in, sit down, write. It’s that easy. These will be 3-hour sessions on Zoom (video off, audio off). No speaker or presentation, but … Continue reading 2021 Write-In November 6
