Lakeshore Writers Workshop
Writers rave about Teresa Burns Gunther’s Lakeshore Writers Workshop, where participants meet once a week over an eight to ten-week session to create new work and respond constructively to one another’s writing. One-on-one private editing and coaching sessions are available by arrangement.
An outgrowth of the Amherst Writers and Artists method, each session includes timed writing exercises in response to a wide variety of prompts. The prompts are designed to be evocative yet flexible. Each writer responds to these prompts as s/he pleases in the genre in which the writer is currently working. Writers are invited to share their work aloud and receive precise, positive feedback.
The objective of the Lakeshore Writer’s Workshop is to provide a safe, supportive setting for a community of writers to come together and create new works or further develop on-going work. An ongoing Manuscript Workshop provides writers with a community of writers sharing work, offering and receiving critique of works in progress (stories, essays or novels) while exploring the many aspects of craft.
Classes are offered throughout the year focusing on craft and the development of works in progress. One day, weekend intensives are offered throughout the year.
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
– Mary Oliver, Blue Pastures