WS Chronicle

Registration is now open for Winston-Salem Writers’ annual Three-In-A-Row workshops. The following workshops will be on Zoom on three Saturdays in January: Critiquing and Revision on Jan. 11, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Agents on Jan.18, and Writing Short Plays on Jan. 25.

All three workshops are from 10 a.m. to noon. The cost is free for Winston-Salem Writers members and $25/workshop for non-members. Registration ends three days before each workshop. For more information, to read speakers’ full bios, and to register, visit www.wswriters.org/workshops-and-seminars. To join or renew your WSW membership for $40, visit wswriters.org/membership. Dues are for January – December 2025.

Three-in-a-Row workshops:

*Struggling to determine what changes to make or feedback to accept? Kat Bodrie will host Critiquing and Revision. Here, we’ll discuss techniques for critiquing, whether in a group, with a partner, or solo, and we’ll approach revision as a time for play, invention, and discernment. We’ll learn to use others’ feedback to hone our craft and better accomplish our intentions for our work. (Winston-Salem Writers offers critique groups for members in various genres.) Kat Bodrie is a writer and editor in Winston-Salem. She is a past president of Winston-Salem Writers, book editor for BleakHouse Publishing, and host city coordinator for Poetry in Plain Sight. More at katbodrie.com.

*Wondering about querying or what an agent does for a writer? Then join Zach Honey in Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Agents, as we discuss those topics and more. Bring your questions! Zach Honey is the founder and director of the Gate City Writers Workshop. He is an associate literary agent at FinePrint Literary Management representing thrillers and other adult fiction.

*Would you like to learn techniques on writing 10-minute plays? Join Emily Emerson in Writing Short Plays (sponsored by Winston-Salem Writers’ 10-Minute Play Festival). Here, we’ll learn how to distill plot, character, and dialogue down to the essential points, and look at some plays that do exactly this. This generative workshop is for all writers, not just playwrights. (The 10-Minute Play Competition will accept submissions in the springl.) Emily Emerson is a writer and actress originally from St. Paul, Minnesota. Her plays include “The Field” (off-Broadway premiere with the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, 2018; Barter Theatre’s Appalachian Festivals of  Plays & Playwrights 2020); “Patient Endeavor” (Ruby Slipper Fringe Festival participant, 2015); and “Blue Whale.”