Looking to develop your own literary skills? We curated a list of writing workshops by Hoosier authors. These interactive workshops engage a variety of audiences and cover several genres. Nonprofits interested in bringing an Indiana writer to their community to provide a one-time writing workshop for a public audience can apply for funds to cover the writer’s fee as part of the new Indiana Authors Awards writing workshop program.
Each year, Indiana Humanities will select up to 10 host organizations and match them to their preferred authors through an application process. Application guidelines, workshop descriptions and an event toolkit are available below. Participating organizations are responsible for working with authors to schedule engagements and cover any travel expenses.
Applications for the 2022 round of programs are currently closed.
Please contact Bronwen Carlisle at bcarlisle@indianahumanities.org with any questions.
2022 Writing workshops
| John F. Allen | The Basics of Writing Speculative Fiction |
| Jennifer Ann Coffeen | How to Write Romance: Creating a Page Turner |
| Bryan Furuness | Remix: Writing Edition |
| Dave Griffith | Bearing Witness: Raising Awareness and Promoting Injustice Through Nonfiction; Write Differently: A Workshop for Young Writers on the Autism Spectrum |
| Lydia Johnson | Your Life As a Poem; Ordering a Chapbook |
| Samuel Love | Oral History for Beginners |
| Ashley Mack-Jackson | The Personal is Political: The Political is Personal |
| Saundra Mitchell | Letters From Imaginary Places |
| Alicia Rasley | Story-Builders! Let’s Get Started Plotting! |
| Larry D. Sweazy | The Big Secret: Starting and Finishing Your Novel |
| Shari Wagner | Poetry as Memoir: Exploring the Terrain |
HOST RESOURCES
If your organization is hosting a workshop in 2022, use these resources to help organize, promote and report your event. If you’d like to attend a workshop, check our events page for details.
- Event & communications toolkit
- Press release template
- Speaker agreement letter template
- Event notification form
- Final report form
- Logos & headshots