Creative Writing
Starport is bringing a variety of Creative Writing classes to the Gilruth Center to help you enhance your writing abilities. Whether your interests are writing blogs, novels, biography, short stories, historical or flash fiction or poetry, you will benefit from the teachings of Katherine Sanger (see instructor bio below).
Current Opportunities:
Description Workshop: 2-Hour Class
Description draws us into a story, letting us fully inhabit the world we’re reading about. Learn the basics and beyond of using description and setting to help create the world of your story. Please bring your computer or writing materials as we will be doing exercises.
- 1 Day, 2-Hour Class
- Tuesday, October 13th
- 6:00 – 8:00 pm
- Gilruth Center, Inspiration Room
- $45 Registration Fee
Register for the Description Workshop – Classroom
Register for the Description Workshop – Virtual Option
Dialogue Workshop: 2-Hour Class
Don’t let the dialogue in your story fall flat! Come learn about using dialogue for description and exposition, using subtext and using realistic dialogue. Learn how to make your characters sound unique, avoid the dreaded adverbs in your dialogue tags, and keep clear of common dialogue mistakes. Please bring your computer or writing materials as we will be doing.
- 1 Day, 2-Hour Class
- Tuesday, November 10th
- 6:00 – 8:00 pm
- Gilruth Center, Inspiration Room
- $45 Registration Fee
Register for the Dialogue Workshop – Classroom
Register for the Dialogue Workshop – Virtual Option
Novella Writing Workshop
A novella may have started out as a short story that accidentally grew too long, or it might be a novel that was accidentally too short. But now that you have one, it’s its own thing, and it has to be treated as such. Learn the basics of writing novellas, from idea to publication. Please bring your computer or writing materials as we will be doing exercises.
- 1 Day, 3-Hour Class
- Saturday, December 5th
- 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Gilruth Center, Inspiration Room
- $65 Early Registration until November 27th
- $75 Late Registration November 30th – December 5th
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Flash Fiction Workshop
Flash Fiction is a short story – under 1,000 words! It requires just as much, if not more, skill as writing a longer piece. Taking the literary world by storm, it has become more, and more popular by the increasing popularity of e-books and Internet reading. Come learn about the elements of story and tips and tricks for Flash!
- 1 Day Workshop, 3-Hour Class
- Saturday, December 12th
- 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
- Gilruth Center, Inspiration Room
- Virtual Class Option Available
- Minimum Class Size – 6
- $65 Early Registration until December 4th
- $75 Late Registration December 5th – 12th
Register for Flash Fiction – Classroom
Register for Flash Fiction – Virtual Option
About the Instructor:
Katherine Sanger was a Jersey Girl before getting smart and moving to Texas. She’s been published in various e-zines and print, including Baen’s Universe, Black Chaos, Wandering Weeds, Spacesports & Spidersilk, Black Petals, Star*Line, Anotherealm, Lost in the Dark, Bewildering Stories, Aphelion, and RevolutionSF, and edited From the Asylum, an e-zine of fiction and poetry, and Serial Flasher, a flash fiction e-zine. Kate is a member of HWA and SFWA. She taught English for over 10 years at various online and local community and technical colleges. You can find her on Facebook or Twitter @ KatherineSanger.
