May 6-9, 2009

Four days of intensive workshops on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plot, and more! All of them taught by respected visiting writers in the heart of downtown Miami at the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College.

Download the Writers Institute 2009 Brochure (PDF)

Confused about how to plan your Writers Institute experience?
Check out our handy scheduling grid (PDF).

Quality workshops? Of course, but the Writers Institute is so much more:

• Daily Briefing Lectures – One topic per evening. Learn why an independent editor might be the answer to your publishing woes and how to approach (and get!) a literary agent. Plus learn from the experiences of two first-time authors. Hear first hand how publishing worked – or didn’t – for a novelist and a memoirist.

• Manuscript Consultations - One-on-one sessions with the pros and feedback on your manuscript! Space is limited.

• Lunchtime Reads - Each day, gather for lunch and to hear Writers Institute faculty read from their work.

• Literary Happy Hour - On Friday evening, May 8, from 5-6 p.m., rub elbows (and clink glasses) with the Institute’s authors and literary professionals.

• Pitch-o-rama 2009! On Saturday, practice the art of the one-minute pitch before a panel of industry pros. Get feedback on your book idea and free advice.

- How to register (includes link to registration forms, fees and submission instructions)


- 2009 Workshops:

Four-Day Workshops:
Writing Memoir with Esmeralda Santiago (sold out!)

Opening up the Poem with Mark Doty (sold out!)

Revision for Fiction and Nonfiction with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (sold out!)


Three-Day Workshops:
Navigating Fictive Distance with Percival Everett

Writing Short Stories that Sing with Steve Almond (sold out!)

Understanding Plot with Lynne Barrett

Hard Boiled Investigative Techniques All Writers Should Know with Pete Collins

- 2009 Daily Breifing Lectures:

You've Written a Book, Now What? with Andrea Askowitz and Anjanette Delgado (FREE!)

Top Ten Reasons Why You Need an Editor with Emily Heckman

Recession-Era Publishing: An Agent's POV with Joelle Delbourgo

- Agent Manuscript Consultation:

Agent Manuscript Consultations with Emily Heckman and Joelle Delbourgo.

 

Traveling to the Writers Institute?
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Please note that because enrollment in most workshops is limited to 15 students, we must have ample time to seek and register a replacement should you be forced to cancel your attendance to the Writers Institute. For that reason, the deadline to cancel your registration for any workshop or lecture and receive a full refund is Monday, April 6, 2009. After that date, we will not be able to offer any refunds.