Community Calendar

Adult Writers’ Studio is a welcoming and creative community of writers 18+ who gather to share and discuss their writing, participate in generative exercises, provide/receive feedback about each other’s work, engage in topical discussions, and support each other through peer motivation and kind, constructive criticism. Led by writer and facilitator Diane Callahan, Adult Writers’ Studio: Elevate Your Writing meets in-person every other Tuesday at Thurber Center.

Adult Writers' Studio: Finish Your Manuscript is a focused, supportive space for writers committed to completing their books with workshop leader Jen Knox. Sessions include structured peer feedback, accountability, and guidance to help you move steadily from draft to done. Whether you’re revising, generating new pages, or pushing through the final chapter, this experience will provide the momentum, clarity, and community you need to finish your manuscript.

Adult Writers’ Studio is a welcoming and creative community of writers 18+ who gather to share and discuss their writing, participate in generative exercises, provide/receive feedback about each other’s work, engage in topical discussions, and support each other through peer motivation and kind, constructive criticism. Led by writer and facilitator Diane Callahan, Adult Writers’ Studio: Elevate Your Writing meets in-person every other Tuesday at Thurber Center.

Adult Writers' Studio: Finish Your Manuscript is a focused, supportive space for writers committed to completing their books with workshop leader Jen Knox. Sessions include structured peer feedback, accountability, and guidance to help you move steadily from draft to done. Whether you’re revising, generating new pages, or pushing through the final chapter, this experience will provide the momentum, clarity, and community you need to finish your manuscript.

Do you have a writer/author “platform”? If so, do you know how to consistently create compelling content and build your audience? Did you know that a smart online presence can also be the key to securing your next writing assignment, agent relationship, or publishing deal?

This workshop will help writers identify, build, and present their platforms on social media and Substack to grow followers, keep audiences engaged, and reach their ideal readers, agents, and publishers.

Social media guru Diane Callahan and Substack expert Amy Turn Sharp will share easy, actionable plans and best practices for building an engaged social media and Substack following capable of generating work opportunities and winning over industry decision-makers. From choosing a platform and handle to learning how to draw readers in and boost views, writers of all genres will walk away with newfound social savvy.

Adult Writers’ Studio is a welcoming and creative community of writers 18+ who gather to share and discuss their writing, participate in generative exercises, provide/receive feedback about each other’s work, engage in topical discussions, and support each other through peer motivation and kind, constructive criticism. Led by writer and facilitator Diane Callahan, Adult Writers’ Studio: Elevate Your Writing meets in-person every other Tuesday at Thurber Center.

Adult Writers' Studio: Finish Your Manuscript is a focused, supportive space for writers committed to completing their books with workshop leader Jen Knox. Sessions include structured peer feedback, accountability, and guidance to help you move steadily from draft to done. Whether you’re revising, generating new pages, or pushing through the final chapter, this experience will provide the momentum, clarity, and community you need to finish your manuscript.

We are living in an age where our attention span is manipulated and bombarded on a daily basis with too much information, thanks to laptops, iPads, and phones. But remember that sense of wonder as a child when walking your neighborhood and you could feel and see and smell the changes of the seasons and how that shaped your behavior? In this workshop, we will explore how to get back to a more sense-based existence—that will both inform and shape your writing, as well as help with your editing. We will discuss methods and habits that can enhance your situational awareness by using all of your senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. And we will examine and discuss the writings of authors known for their descriptive ability to place the reader in a certain time and place.

Watching urban wildlife in your own backyard, taking daily walks in your neighborhood or an evening drive in the country with the windows down, or walking into a bakery and being engulfed in the aroma of freshly baked breads and cookies all are sensory experiences. In this workshop, we will complete a series of writing exercises to hone your writing skills using the power of observations—noticing the extraordinary in the everyday, and noticing the ordinary with a sense of wonder.

Adult Writers’ Studio is a welcoming and creative community of writers 18+ who gather to share and discuss their writing, participate in generative exercises, provide/receive feedback about each other’s work, engage in topical discussions, and support each other through peer motivation and kind, constructive criticism. Led by writer and facilitator Diane Callahan, Adult Writers’ Studio: Elevate Your Writing meets in-person every other Tuesday at Thurber Center.

Adult Writers' Studio: Finish Your Manuscript is a focused, supportive space for writers committed to completing their books with workshop leader Jen Knox. Sessions include structured peer feedback, accountability, and guidance to help you move steadily from draft to done. Whether you’re revising, generating new pages, or pushing through the final chapter, this experience will provide the momentum, clarity, and community you need to finish your manuscript.