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SUMMARY:Hunt for Your Next Story
DESCRIPTION:Ready to find your next great read? We invite you to bring a recommended book or a powerful excerpt you can share with fellow writers. Join us in discovering these literary gems!
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/hunt-for-your-next-story/
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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SUMMARY:Writers' Enrichment: Great Beginnings
DESCRIPTION:Explore the opening pages of novels and best-practices for hooking a reader.
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/writers-enrichment-great-beginnings/
LOCATION:9132 Grant Avenue\, Manassas\, VA 20110\, 9132 Grant Ave\, Manassas\, VA\, 20110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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SUMMARY:August Writer's Enrichment
DESCRIPTION:Lines That Climb: Crafting Scenes with Dialogue and Depth\n\nBull Run Library\nGroup Study Room B
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/august-writers-enrichment/
LOCATION:Bull Run Regional Library\, 8051 Ashton Ave\, Manassas\, VA\, 20109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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SUMMARY:July Writer's Enrichment
DESCRIPTION:Is Your Work Submission Ready?\nJuly Writer’s Enrichment\nSaturday\, July 13th at 10:00 AM\nBull Run Unitarian Universalist Church\n9350 Main St\, Manassas\, VA 20110 \nWith the VWC Golden Nib contest as well as the WbtR biennial anthology approaching\, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and help each other get our pieces into shape! \nOne of the best reasons to join a local writing group is to surround ourselves with the encouraging and critical minds of fellow creatives! Let’s use our skills to help sharpen our prose\, polish our rhetoric\, and improve our voices. \nOn Saturday\, July 13th\, our Writers Enrichment will be all about improving and tweaking our best pieces to get them ready for submission. Bring three copies of at least one piece to share – a maximum of 5 pages long.  We’ll split up into groups\, read\, make notes\, and share our insight. \nDon’t forget to bring an open mind to receive feedback as well as an open heart to offer your own feedback to fellow authors. We’ll offer some tips on giving – and receiving! – feedback before we begin. \nWe are looking forward to a great turn-out. Keep in mind that the church doors will automatically lock at 10:10\, so if you’re running late\, post on the FB page so we know to come let you in!
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/july-writers-enrichment/
LOCATION:Bull Run Unitarian Universalist Church\, 9350 Main St\, Manassas\, VA\, 20110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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SUMMARY:June Writer's Enrichments
DESCRIPTION:Is Your Work Submission Ready?\nJune Writer’s Enrichments\nSaturday\, June 8th at 10:00 AM\nBull Run Unitarian Universalist Church\n9350 Main St\, Manassas\, VA 20110 \nWith the VWC Golden Nib contest as well as the WbtR biennial anthology approaching\, it’s time to roll up our sleeves and help each other get our pieces into shape! \nOne of the best reasons to join a local writing group is to surround ourselves with the encouraging and critical minds of fellow creatives! Let’s use our skills to help sharpen our prose\, polish our rhetoric\, and improve our voices. \nOn Saturday\, June 8th\, our Writers Enrichment will be all about improving and tweaking our best pieces to get them ready for submission. Bring three copies of at least one piece to share – a maximum of 5 pages long.  We’ll split up into groups\, read\, make notes\, and share our insight. \nDon’t forget to bring an open mind to receive feedback as well as an open heart to offer your own feedback to fellow authors. We’ll offer some tips on giving – and receiving! – feedback before we begin. \nWe are looking forward to a great turn-out. Keep in mind that the church doors will automatically lock at 10:10\, so if you’re running late\, post on the FB page so we know to come let you in!
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/june-writers-enrichments/
LOCATION:Bull Run Unitarian Universalist Church\, 9350 Main St\, Manassas\, VA\, 20110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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SUMMARY:April Writer's Enrichment
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry of Spring!\nApril Enrichment with Sharon Krasny\nSaturday\, April 13th\, 10:00 AM\nBull Run Unitarian Universalist Church\n9350 Main St\, Manassas\, VA 20110 \nIt’s spring! Birds are singing\, cherry blossom petals are swirling in the brisk winds\, and life is pressing on. Please join us on Saturday\, April 13th in celebration of National Poetry Month for a poetry writing session led by our own Sharon Krasny. \nWe’ll meet at Bull Run Unitarian Universalist Church and\, weather permitting\, we’ll let the spring sunshine inspire our pens. Please bring a tablet\, pen\, and something warm to wear in case of breezes. If it rains\, we’ll head inside to the Conference Room and rely on our imaginations! (Keep in mind that the doors will lock at 10:10\, so if you’re running late\, post on the FB page so we know to come let you in!) \nWe’d love to see you and celebrate spring creativity with you! See you there!
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/april-writers-enrichment/
LOCATION:BRUU\, 9350 Main St\, Manassas\, VA\, 20110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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SUMMARY:March Writer's Enrichment
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss out on this award-winning author’s presentation: The Courage to Write Fiction. We are planning to record Greg’s presentation to offer our members but we hope you’ll make the effort to be there in person. \n \nGreg Fields\, local author and international speaker\, will be joining us to share his presentation from the International Dublin Writers Festival. Greg is the author of Through the Waters and the Wild\, winner of the 2022 Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction\, the Independent Publishers Association Award\, the New York Book Award for Literary Fiction and two other national recognitions. \nHe is currently an editor for his publisher\, Koehler Books\, and has just returned from Ireland where he presented at the International Dublin Writers Festival. \nHis first novel\, Arc of the Comet\, was published in 2017. A third novel\, The Bright Freight of Memory\, is scheduled for release in August 2024. www.gregfields.net.
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/432/
LOCATION:BRUU\, 9350 Main St\, Manassas\, VA\, 20110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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SUMMARY:February Enrichment
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Wyatt to lead writing prompts via Zoom.
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/february-enrichment/
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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SUMMARY:January Enrichment
DESCRIPTION:Hot Cocoa and Mittens\n\nJoin us at the Flamingo Lounge in BRUU for a morning of writing inspiration. Our Vice-President\, Sharon Krasny\, will lead the group\, prompting us with some warm childhood memories to spark our creative muses!
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/january-enrichment/
LOCATION:BRUU\, 9350 Main St\, Manassas\, VA\, 20110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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SUMMARY:Writer’s Enrichment
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, July 8\, at 10:00 AM We will be hosting a Writers’ Setting Social! Rebecca Sosa and Sharon Krasky invite you to join us at the Bull Run Unitarian Universalist Church in Old Towne Manassas to sip coffee and set a spell while we discuss settings.
URL:https://wbtr.org/event/writers-enrichment/
LOCATION:Bull Run Unitarian Universalist Church\, 9350 Main St\, Manassas\, VA\, 20110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Writer’s Enrichment
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