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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.

No matter your writing wheelhouse, it's important to know how to write funny. A sharp punchline, a witty character, or an uproarious scene can inject life and balance into your work. Satire and humor writer, editor, and teacher Brooke Preston (former faculty member at The Second City, co-founder of The Belladonna, and co-author of the satire book New Erotica for Feminists, whose humor work has appeared in The New York Times, Real Simple, McSweeney's, The Cut, and many more) will guide aspiring, emerging, and experienced writers alike through the basic rules of humor and satire writing, including practical tips and exercises that help evolve funny ideas into fleshed-out characters, jokes, or scenes that strike the right tone for your writing project. We'll also explore how a smart punch-up and edit process is the secret ingredient that turns half-baked hahas into perfectly prepared guffaws.

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.

Join New York Times bestselling author and two-time Thurber Prize finalist Annabelle Gurwitch at Cure Coffee & Cocktails for an evening of humor, insight, and conversation. Gurwitch discusses her latest book, The End of My Life Is Killing Me, a witty and deeply moving reflection on life, illness, and resilience. An optional Author’s Table Dinner precedes the event. Q&A, book signing, and photo op follow.

You’ve written an essay, a short story, some poems, or maybe a novel. So, what’s next, if you want to publish it? This session offers a step-by-step process for how to conduct a targeted search of where to publish your work, plus tips for organizing that process. Specifically, you’ll learn about online tools for doing a targeted search, the protocols for submitting your work (including links to drafting query letters), and how to create your own action plan. This session will also include a handout that lists ways to find agents (primarily fiction/novel) and non-agented, small independent presses. Please note: this session does not focus on how to self-publish your work.

Instructor Nicole Gnezda, Ph.D. will lead participants through a process of self-exploration, investigating topics such as entropy vs. creativity, deterioration vs. growth, repressing vs. addressing pain, and finding resilience. We will build bridges between the unconscious and the conscious, using writing to transform the painful and ugly into something meaningful and beautiful.

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: 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.