Storytelling Classes in Washington, DC

This workshop will look at what makes short stories work (and by extension, novels and memoirs). Participants will be read and discuss stories from American Best Short Stories 2017 edited by Meg Wolitzer, as well as workshop their short stories or memoirs. Participants are encouraged to bring a story to the first class for critique.

Participants will experiment with words, language, story telling, and poetry through interactive class activities and out of class readings and assignments.

Spring! This can be your time to plant seeds of creativity. Begin by exploring imaginative forms of writing in a supportive environment.  Fun prompts will help circumvent the analytic brain and give creativity a chance to thrive. You’ll find new ways to free up memories and use them as inspiration for memoir, fiction, poems, creative nonfiction,...

Developing a strong advocacy story can make a tremendous difference in your campaigns. While storytelling is nothing new, elements such as structure, audience attention span and message outreach have all changed significantly in recent years. At this two-hour workshop, we’ll discuss from A-Z what it takes to build a successful storytelling campaign...

In this workshop, students will learn about the five facets of performance structure important to engaging audiences, creating memorable performances, and improving spontaniety: use and command of space physicality manipulation of voice props as story characters coloring of words  Through hands on exercises and a sampling from attendees’...

This is a part time course.  Unit 1: Digital Marketing Framework & Strategy Business & Customer Strategy Define the core components of a business (value proposition, business model, customer). Explain your business model and write an elevator pitch. Define Digital Marketing, explore its evolution and the current landscape. Define...

Join Award-winning Screenwriter and Producer, Dara Padwo-Audick, for a one-day hands-on workshop that combines storytelling and producing techniques. You will learn how to hone your concept to a one-page synopsis, how to write a scene, as well as how to schedule and budget your scene for production. Main Topics Include: Story Arc and Plot Points Elements...

These are exciting times to be a screenwriter. With more shows and television channels than ever, the opportunities for inventive ways of storytelling increase daily. This hands-on workshop will guide beginning and intermediate screenwriters through the process of crafting a professional-grade screenplay and/or TV pilot.  Participants will examine...

These are exciting times to be a screenwriter. With more shows and television channels than ever, the opportunities for inventive ways of storytelling increase daily.  This hands-on workshop will guide beginning and intermediate screenwriters through the process of crafting a professional-grade screenplay and/or TV pilot. Participants will examine...

Envision your story and discover its meaning before you actually put it on the page. Using pre-writing activities, including storytelling, participants will learn to see their story from different angles. This workshop features active engagement with the elements of Story more than listening to lecture.  At the close of the workshop, participants...

The Power of Image: Learning to Write from Playing Video Games  Ezra Pound says that “the natural object is always the adequate symbol.” Visual storytelling mediums such as movies, television shows, and video games are using the natural object to do quite a bit of storytelling in a small space. Games like Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Gone...

You’ve finished your first draft, put it aside, and after a suitable time, read it over. Maybe you’ve come across passages where the story flows and you’re thrilled by what you’ve created. Yet, you’ve also found passages that make you cringe: boring paragraphs of description, scenes of dialogue that don’t move the story, characters who...

The goal in this ‘Guided Autobiography’ workshop is to capture your life experiences in six short pieces of autobiographical writing (true stories) for those who will survive you—or for yourself later in life. Knowing that you are writing not for publication but to set the record straight (in your own mind, if nothing else) may liberate you,...