crafting the short story

JCAS's(jersey city art school) newest writers' course is focusing on short fiction. Each participant will, over the span of 4 weeks, complete a draft of a short story and receive feedback on it from the rest of the group. We will review techniques as they are used by past masters of the craft, then apply them to our own work.

Register here: http://jcartschool.com/writing.html

Wednesdays from 7:30 to 9:30 PM, beginning Feb. 9th. See you there, and please spread the word!

Amanda
326 5th street

Writers' Info Session and Cocktail Evening

Monday December 6th · 7:30 - 10:30pm

We're having a party to spread the word about the JCAS writers' seminars. If you are a writer in the neighborhood, or a would-be writer, or just curious about how these weekly sessions might fit into your life, you're cordially invited to join us for pre-holiday drinks, snacks, and conversation. Bring a friend, date, relative... all, of both the writing and non-writing persuasions, are welcome!

It's very acceptable to bring something to eat or drink but, for heaven's sake, you don't have to.

Jersey City Art School

326 5th street, Ground Floor

writer's seminar week 4: sound and sensibility

JC art school, monday 9/ 13,  7.30 - 9.30 pm

At the heart of much great writing is the balance between “sound and sense,” Alexander Pope told us—and in this session we will see how good prosody (meter and rhymes in a proscribed order) will, like the lyrics of a song, elevate the sentiments you want to convey. This discussion will focus primarily on poetry; poets discussed will include W.H. Auden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and John Donne. Participants are also encouraged to ...bring in and share poems they have written.
hosted by Amanda Nazario

Fee: $10 suggested donation

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The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.

writer´s seminar week 3, " the beautiful sentence"

August 30 · 7:30pm - 9:30pm,  JC Art school, 326 5th street
This talk will set out to create an appreciation for sentence architecture—necessarily in prose, though we will also discuss lines of poetry that accomplish a similar end. How important is that first sentence in a short story, really? What sets a great sentence apart from a merely good one? Through textual analysis of authors from Gertrude Stein to Jonathan Lethem, and an in-session exercise, we will attempt to turn a plain stat...ement into a piece of art.
hosted by Amanda Nazario


Fee: $10 suggested donation
The JCAS Writers’ Seminar meets every Monday from 7:30 to 9:30 PM to discuss authors and their craft, with a view toward how to implement effective literary techniques in your own writing.