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Hold the Date: 2027 Summer Camp for Young Writers (Grades 10-12)

Next session: June 21st to 25th, 2027

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Does your child love words? Are they a budding poet, essayist, or fiction writer? Would they enjoy exploring the art of writing in a safe and non-competitive small group setting?

Mark your calendar! We've begun planning next year's summer camps, and camp for writers of all genders who are entering grades 10-12 and who have just completed grade 12 is scheduled for June 21-25.

Themes, facilitators, and other details will be posted when camp registration opens in a few months. Meanwhile, to keep up with news about our Youth programming and tell us about your child's interests, see our Youth webpage here.

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Elements of Story: Characterization

with Vicki Phillips

Next session: October 25th, 2026

$30 More Info

Central to story is the main character, the protagonist. This is the person our readers will invest in, emotionally resonate with, and go on a journey with.

The focus of this workshop is how to create a compelling character, to render them as embodied, with a physical and spiritual self, dwelling in a specific cultural and social location, with their unique personalities, agency, desire and goals.

Class runs: Sunday Oct 25, 3-5 PM
Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

Elements of Story is a series of three new classes focusing on key elements of story telling: Scene, Characterization, and Energy. Take one, two, or all three! Each class can stand alone and all are suitable for writers of fiction, memoir, or creative non-fiction.

PRICING POLICY: We use a three-tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.

Join us for Open Mic Night!

Next session: October 13th, 2026

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Join us for Open Mic Night on Tuesday, October 13, from 6:00–8:00 p.m., where we’ll explore the theme Haunted & Healing.

Share your own writing, read a favorite piece, or simply come to listen and be in community — everyone is welcome.

No pre-registration required! In-person sign ups begin at 6:00 and readings begin at 6:30.

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Wednesday Evening Core Class (Women & Nonbinary)

with Diane Debevec

Current session: September 16th to December 16th, 2026

$489 More Info

Core Class is where you find your writing community! Facilitators create a welcoming space with inspiration, writing prompts, small groups for feedback, and opportunities to read and listen in community.

Class runs: Virtually for 13 weeks, skipping Nov. 25
Open to: Women & Nonbinary, Ages 18+

About the Facilitator: Diane Debevec has been involved in the WWfaC community for over 25 years, as participant, facilitator, board member, volunteer and executive director. While her creative life includes visual art, music, yoga and gardening, she considers writing to be her foundational life practice. Diane lives with her husband Jeff (and assorted four-leggeds) in a small downtown community they call Artful Habitats.

PRICING POLICY: We use a three tier pricing structure based on your financial circumstance. During registration, please select the tier that feels most true to your current financial ability. Learn more here.

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Elements of Story: The Energy

with Vicki Phillips

Next session: November 8th, 2026

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What gives energy to a story, drives the main character, motivates their opponent, and engages readers? Having desire, taking steps to fulfill it, being thwarted, facing the decision to fold or to persist.

Typically craft talk names this element “conflict.” Ursula K. LeGuin says, “Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”

This workshop will invite writers to explore the diversity of behaviors, including conflict, identify the specific challenge their story relates, so that the best shape of the story will emerge.

This class runs: Sunday Nov 8, 3-5 PM
Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

Elements of Story is a series of three new classes focusing on key elements of story telling: Scene, Characterization, and Energy. Take. one, two, or all three! Each class can stand alone and all are suitable for writers of fiction, memoir, or creative non-fiction.

Interest Session on Writing a Novel – Virtual

with Vicki Phillips

Next session: November 10th, 2026

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Writing a novel has challenges, contours and craft issues specific to that form. Women Writing for (a) Change would like to support novel writers by offering a class designed with your needs in mind.

With that as our goal, we are holding two one-hour "interest sessions" - one in person and one virtual - to assess interest and to learn from novel writers what issues, topics, and types of support a course in novel writing can offer you.

Wherever you are on your novel-writing journey, please join us for one of these interest sessions.

This session runs: Virtually
Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

About the Facilitator: Vicki Phillips holds an MFA in Fiction from West Virginia Wesleyan College. She has been a regular participant in National Novel Writing Month. Vicki has drafted three novels and is currently nearing the final draft of a murder mystery.

Interest Session on Writing a Novel – In Person

with Vicki Phillips

Next session: November 14th, 2026

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Writing a novel has challenges, contours and craft issues specific to that form. Women Writing for (a) Change would like to support novel writers by offering a class designed with your needs in mind.

Wherever you are on your novel-writing journey, please join us for one of these interest sessions.

This session runs: In person
Open to: All Genders, Ages 18+

Hold the Date: 2027 Summer Camp for Young Writers (Grades 7-9)

Next session: June 14th to 18th, 2027

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Does your child love words? Are they a budding poet, essayist, or fiction writer? Would they enjoy exploring the art of writing in a safe and non-competitive small group setting?

Mark your calendar! We've begun planning next year's summer camps, and we are planning two camps for writers of all genders who are entering grades 7 though 9 (June 14-18 and June 28-July 2).

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Hold the Date: 2027 Summer Camp for Young Writers (Grades 4-6)

Next session: June 7th to 11th, 2027

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Does your child love words? Are they a budding poet, essayist, or fiction writer? Would they enjoy exploring the art of writing in a safe and non-competitive small group setting?

Mark your calendar! We've begun planning next year's summer camps, and camp for writers of all genders who are entering grades 4 through 6 is scheduled for June 7-11.

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CFLA Discernment Circle #3

with Diane Debevec

Next session: December 14th, 2026

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What if leadership looked like honoring intuition, deep listening and collective care?

At Women Writing for (a) Change, we grow leaders through our biannual Conscious Feminine Leadership Academy (CFLA). During CFLA, using writing as our primary tool of self-discovery, we study what Conscious Feminine leadership means and how to apply it personally, professionally, and as leaders in our community.

Applications for CFLA 2027 will open in January, and in preparation, we are holding three gatherings we call Discernment Circles, where we will provide information and answer questions about CFLA. We invite you to join us for one or more of these circles. The gatherings are free but registration is required.

Circle #3 will meet virtually on Monday, Dec 14 from 6:30-8:30 PM
Open to all genders, ages 18+

Additional information about CFLA 2027 will be available soon on our Leadership page.