Writing Workshop provides a challenging but supportive environment in which participants determine and pursue individual writing intentions. The goal of the workshop is to help you best say what you want to say.

Weekly writing in and out of class is the cauldron for experiencing the four elements of writer, writing process, writing product and responding. Each writer will be asked to read their piece aloud and to direct our discussion by giving us particular questions or concerns they have about their piece. Each participant will act as an interested and lively responder for the work of every writer in the class. Our comments will begin by focusing on strengths and on what is working; then we can make suggestions about what might help improve the piece.

You, as the writer, always determine what is or is not best for your writing. Participants will experience a variety of strategies, behaviors, habits and attitudes, so they can choose those that help them improve. Uncertainty and ambiguity are part of the work, but remember that we are all in this together.