Midwest Writers Workshop

SUPER-MINI-CONFERENCE

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July 27-28 at the Ball State Alumni Center, Muncie, Indiana.
Friday 8:30 am through Saturday 12:30 pm. {Just $199}

A dynamic day-and-a-half with a decidedly different structure—shorter, smaller, less expensive, with a strong emphasis on helping you reach your writing goals.

This MWW Craft + Community super mini is designed for writers of every level in their careers.

Our programming focuses on key areas such as craft improvement, genre knowledge, finding critique partners, and forming writing support groups to help improve your writing. Get feedback from experts and friendly peers. Sharing your work and reading your work will allow you to pinpoint sagging plot lines, breaks in character and more. The give-and-take, along with honest feedback, is a win for all.

Whether you’re a published author or a novice exploring writing for the first time, you’ll find your place here, among teachers and fellow writers in a small group environment. It’s time to grow your network and nurture your identity as a writer. We have mentors to help.

MWW ONGOING

Available Courses: Which course is calling your name?

Word Play: offers writing exercises that explore diction and figurative language choices, helping you develop voice in your stories, essays, and poems. Join any time ~ Cost: $50

Deepening Conflict in Your Novel: a 2-week course taught by Shirley Jump. Learn the difference between conflict and tension, how to create conflicts that aren’t just arguments, and developing conflict from your characters. ~ Cost: $75

The Building Blocks of a Great Novel: a 6-unit course taught by Dianne Drake (includes manuscript evaluation!) for beginning writers to help you discover all the key elements common to every great novel – elements that will make your novel great, too! Cost ~ $149

MWW STATEMENT

The board of the Midwest Writers Workshop canceled its traditional three-day conference, hired a management/leadership consultant from Shafer Leadership Academy, and is working hard behind the scenes to learn the best practices for governing a small, newly-minted nonprofit organization like MWW. Our goal is to structure MWW in a way that will ensure its diversity, efficiency, stability, sustainability, and longevity. This will involve recruiting new board members, establishing term-limits for all board members, creating a strategic plan, recruiting a pool of willing volunteers, and looking for new opportunities to serve the writing community. Serving as key advisors on this journey are Jane Friedman and Ashley Ford, industry experts and good friends of MWW. As we mature as an organization, we’re committed to our mission of helping writers achieve their publishing goals. That will never change. And that is why, as we’re working on our nonprofit governance, we are also dedicated to our mission by offering a dynamic day-and-a-half program with a decidedly different structure—shorter, smaller, less expensive, with a strong emphasis on helping writers reach their writing goals.

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What Others Have To Say…

John Gilstrap

“Over the years, I’ve participated in more conferences than I can count, but time after time, Midwest Writers Workshop ranks among the best of the best. The students are anxious to learn, the faculty comes to teach, and the result is electrifying.“

John Gilstrapauthor of Jonathan Grave thriller series

Jane Friedman

“Midwest Writers Workshop is a very special place for writers. I’ve been speaking and attending its sessions for nearly 15 years, and the sense of community and support is outstanding. It has played a role in launching numerous successful author careers—unsurprising, since it works so thoughtfully to fulfill its mission of helping writers flourish and be their best selves.”

Jane Friedman20 years in the publishing industry, with expertise in digital media strategy for authors and publishers

Tom Williams

“I’ll go just about anywhere to talk about the agony and ecstasy of writing fiction, but I’ve found the standard of excellence against which all writers conferences will be measured: the Midwest Writers Workshop in the Ball State University campus in Muncie, Indiana.”

Tom Williamsauthor of Don’t Start Me Talkin’, and Among The Wild Mulattos & Other Tales, named a 2015 Great Read by NPR.

Ashley C. Ford

“I’ve had the MOST fun teaching at #MWW. I started out interning at this conference, and now I’m teaching a five-hour writing intensive?! Wow.”

Ashley C. Fordwriter, editor, and public speaker