Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.

Getting an idea for a book is only the start. How do you develop that idea into something compelling enough to carry an entire novel? In this workshop, Alex Kourvo and Bethany Neal will discuss growing an idea, understanding genre, and the best way to make your book fit in with others on the shelf.

Characters have to talk to each other, so why is fictional dialogue often so flat on the page? In this workshop, Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will help you add life to your characters’ words and hone the point of view so those words are distinctly their own.

Protagonists always want something and the struggle to achieve their goal gives the story high stakes, but it’s the theme of a novel that adds depth. In this workshop, Alex Kourvo and Bethany Neall will teach you how to make your stories both bigger and more meaningful.

Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is entirely voluntary.

Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.

Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.

Writing a novel or a memoir is complicated, so why not set yourself up for success right from the start? In this workshop, Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will provide positive suggestions for correcting common writing mistakes that will save a writer time and make the writing journey more enjoyable.

In this workshop, authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be joined by poet Jeff Kass, who will discuss writing poetry with language, themes, and content that resonate in the modern world.

A novel is a huge project with a lot of components that have to work together. So, the task of revising it can seem overwhelming. In this workshop, Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will take the stress out of revision by breaking the process down into manageable steps.