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Master the craft of writing.
The Attic named Best of Portland
"[An] emphasis not only on writing, but creating and building a community with other writers."
-- The Oregonian
"The Attic Writers' Workshop is a quiet, literary oasis..."
-- Willamette Week
This fall, take a 10-week online master class with Marc Acito
Designed like a classical master class, Marc's workshops are popular, lively, wildly praised for helping advance your writing.
Special features include direct live chat feedback, video lectures, and notes on your works-in-progress.
Online master classes with Marc:
1. Story Structure Build a page-turning tale.
2. Advanced Story Structure Finish your magnum opus.
Longtime Attic teacher Ariel Gore returns to Portland to teach a special weekend master class
Come on up! October 22-24.
Jump-start your writing life, get feedback on essays you've been working on, breath new energy into a project, or just explore the memoir possibilities. This weekend intensive is appropriate for new and seasoned writers interested in fashioning stories from real life.
Look down the road at our fall classes
New workshops begin in September.
Including 1-day, 5-week, 6-week, & 10-week experiences.
Make August a great month for your writing
Two Days of Feedback: Fiction Workshop
Taught by award-winning writer Merridawn Duckler
August 18-19
Your Book-Length Project: Organizing and Structuring
Taught by award-winning writer Shanna Germain
August 18-19
See the entire line up of classes
July Workshops
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Fiction Workshop: Writing the Lives of Girls and Women (Thursdays) Summer |
| Screenplay Jumpstart Workshop: (Saturdays) Summer |
Attic faculty Henry Hughes & Karen Karbo featured in Oregon Humanities
Spring 2010's issue on the theme of Looking is in Oregon Humanities' newly designed format.
"Abnormal Beauties" by Karen Karbo. Portlanders don't fare well in a national magazine's beauty ratings.
"Just Look and Read" by Henry Hughes. Photos by Paul S. Gentry. Can photography make a poetry more accessible?
Meet the Atheneum class of 2011
Congratulations to the writers who have been accepted into the Attic Atheneum class of 2011. Celebrate! July 14, 2010, at the Springbox Gallery. 7:30pm. Free. Reading & reception.
The Atheneum is an 11-month certificate program that melds independent study under close faculty supervision, student receptions, public readings, and other special events created around good food and great conversation, dialogue, and literary community.
Poetry: Ron Bloodworth, Jodie Marion. Michael Wynn. Elizabeth Flint-Somerville
Fiction: Wayne Gregory, Michael Royce. Rajesh Varma, Adrienna Ogin
Non Fiction: Audrey Nieswandt Lauzon, Mary Mandeville, Lisa Loving, Stacy Bolt
Novelist and memoirist Cheryl Strayed joins the Attic Atheneum
We're delighted to have Cheryl join us for the Atheneum class of 2011 to work with non-fiction writers.
Cheryl was recently awarded a Pushcart Prize for her story, "Munro Country," published in the Missouri Review.
The Oregonian highlights what's new at the Attic
Pat Mullarkey focuses on the Attic writers' workshops and the Atheneum.
"If you're interested in writing, this is a wonderful place to be. Communities define themselves in terms of exclusiveness or inclusiveness. Portland defines itself by inclusiveness."
