A UNIQUE COMMUNITY OF WRITERS
Programs for Youth & Adults
For people who want to connect socially with other members. We’ll divide the time by the number of attendees that show up for each session. Use your allotted time as you wish: share an excerpt of your work "open mic style," update us on your writing life/challenges, consult “the hive” on an issue in your writing.
All Social Hours will be held on the first Tuesday of the month.
Free for all members. Pre-registration is necessary.
Zoom link will be sent when registration is completed.
Roundtables are critique groups designed to support you as you work on projects and continue developing the craft. Our experienced leaders are published writers who are also actively pursuing their own writing goals. They are committed to helping you reach your writing dreams — big project or small — fiction, nonfiction, plays or poetry.
Our groups are appropriate for dedicated writers willing to share their work with a group to receive feedback, share ideas and build a network of writing friends.
Current members of the group have registration priority.
A Zoom link will be sent to you when you register.
First Wednesday evening of each month
Speculative and genre fiction can be challenging to provide feedback on if you have not been immersed in similar reading and writing. This series offers an opportunity to explore worlds completely different from our own and receive feedback from other open-minded genre writers.
What is genre fiction? Genre fiction is any piece of literature that follows a discrete formula to advance the story. Readers of genre fiction, such as romance or mystery, expect it to follow certain formulas, tropes, structures, and/or archetypes.
What is speculative fiction? Spec-Fic is an umbrella term for fiction that pulls away from everyday reality. Speculative is a catch-all for genres such as fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, paranormal, horror, and anything else beyond the ordinary world.
Instructor Bio:
Rachel Gerlach-Matt is the author of two serial romances with 12k loyal readers on the Radish Fiction app, a recently completed cozy fantasy novel in the querying process, and an in-progress fantasy trilogy. She loves playing with genre in both her reading and her writing, focusing heavily on themes of healthy relationships, personal growth, mental illness, and practical magick. She lives in Madison, WI, with her husband and golden retriever, Nugget. If she’s not writing, she’s watching Korean Dramas or playing cozy video games.
Prompts and writing in community are great ways to tap into your creativity and unlock the ideas that bubble just below the surface. For novice and veteran writers—and everyone in between—Time to Write! will bring you back to the page and rekindle your delight in the writing process. (Sessions are led by Red Oak Director, Kim Suhr)
Registrations open to all. Discount applies to all member levels.
Zoom link will be sent upon registration.
This Roundtable group is by invitation only. Please contact Kim to inquire about openings.
Receive helpful feedback on a work in progress to prepare it to submit for publication and/or for personal enrichment.
Our collegial atmosphere will make you comfortable sharing your writing; our professional-level feedback will take your draft to the next level. Plus, we have fun! Since the group's inception, a number of our members have published short pieces in journals and/or released books.
Registration covers all 6 sessions, but sign up even if you can't attend all of them. We're happy to have you with us as often as your schedule allows.
The Moving Pens is a collaboration between the MCW Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Program and Red Oak Writing.
Free for MCW students, faculty, and other personnel.
A Zoom link will be sent when your registration has been accepted.
Red Oak Writing Kim Suhr, Director kim@redoakwriting.com Phone: 414-881-7276
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