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February 20 - March 19 | Fiction Workshop | Greg Robillard
February 20 - March 19 | Reflective Writing Memoir Technique Workshop | Jennifer Lauck
February 20 - March 19 | The Music of Poetry: An Exploration of Prosody | John Morrison
February 23 - March 22 | More Radical Redrafting | Matthew Dickman (FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY)
February 23 - March 22 | Writing Narratives: Explorations of Voice | Vanessa Veselka
March 7 - April 4 | Sexy on the Page: Writing and Editing Stories of Sex and Romance | Shanna Germain
March 7 - May 16 | Travel Writing | Martha Gies
March 16-18 | 2nd Annual Creative Renewal Weekend at the Historic Balch Hotel | David Biespiel
April 1 - May 20 | The Craft of Memoir | Jennifer Lauck
Free Workshop | April 9 | Poets! Read to Revise! | David Biespiel
Free Workshop | April 9 | Seven Steps to Scene | Jennifer Lauck | FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY
Free Workshop | April 10 | Blind Spots and Bad Ideas | Vanessa Veselka | FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY
Free Workshop | April 10 | How To Know What You Write | Peter Zuckerman
Free Workshop | April 10 | Subject, Object, Reader, Self | Merridawn Duckler
Free Workshop | April 11 | FLASH! Capture Big Stories in under 1,000 Words | Liz Prato | FULL - WAIT LIST ONLY
Free Workshop | April 11 | Not a Bad Sonnet | John Morrison
Free Workshop | April 11 | Secrets of Successful Dialogue | Shanna Germain
Free Workshop | April 12 | Go to the Source: Art and Science of Finding and Interviewing Experts | Elizabeth Rusch
Free Workshop | April 12 | Triggering the Flow | Dave Jarecki
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 16 - June 4 | Poetry By the Book | David Biespiel
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 16 - May 14 | Craft the Spiritual Essay | Jennifer Lauck
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 16 - May 14 | How to Write a Kick-A@# Scene | Jennifer Lauck
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 16 - May 14 | Reboot Your Spec-Fic Book | Shanna Germain
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 17 - May 15 | Chapter 1: Getting Your Book Started | Peter Zuckerman
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 17 - May 15 | Fiction and Form | Merridawn Duckler
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 17 - May 15 | Write for Oregon ArtsWatch | Barry Johnson
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 18 - May 16 | Publish Now: From Book Reviews to Smart Blogs | Jeff Baker
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 18 - May 16 | Subscription Package: Poetry's Potent, Open, Magic Forms | John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 18 - May 9 | Subscription Package: Narrator, Backstory, Shake It Up, Blues | Liz Prato
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 18 | Narrator, Tell Me Everything You Know. Please. | Liz Prato
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 18 | Poetry: The Aubade | John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 19 - May 17 | The Language of Your Life | Vanessa Veselka
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 19 - May 17 | Writing the Young Adult Novel | Kerry Cohen
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 19 - May 17 | Writing Without Restriction | Vanessa Veselka
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 19 - May 31 | Write a Book Proposal | Elizabeth Rusch
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 21 - June 9 | Time to Write and Workshop Your Poems | Dave Jarecki and John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 21 - May 19 | Create Writing Time in Your Life | Dave Jarecki
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 25 | Poetry: The Letter Poem | John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | April 25 | What's the Story with Backstory? | Liz Prato
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | May 2 | Poetry: The Ode | John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | May 2 | Shake It Up: Using Nonlinear Forms to Enliven Your Writing | Liz Prato
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | May 9 | Poetry: The List Poem | John Morrison
Spring Fling Festival for Writers | May 9 | Reading Like a Writer: "Sonny’s Blues" and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" | Liz Prato
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