Writing Workshops

Expect the best from MAD about Words workshops

  • Experience just the right mix of instruction, practice, and interaction
  • Meet, mingle, and make friends with other writers
  • Feel safe, supported, and free to experiment
  • Make connections to support your writing career

Work with a variety of published writers & experienced teachers

Experience different perspectives on writing and the writing life and discover what works best for you. Our writing workshops are professionally facilitated by wise and generous writers who share the kind of insights that can only be gained from years of writing, teaching, and publishing experience.

Writing Workshop at Kerouac House

kerouac projectOn Saturday, January 26, The Jack Kerouac Writers-in-Residence Project of Orlando partners with MAD about Words to offer you the opportunity to learn from and write with Mike Rands, the current writer-in-residence at Kerouac House.

Writing the Radical Other

mike rands

Learn and write with Mike Rands at Kerouac House

Write what you know. This is often the first piece of advice given to writers. But what about writing what you don’t know? Or more specifically, how do you get inside the mind of a character who, for whatever reason, seems radically different to you? We’ll discuss different ways of taking on this challenge and look at the risks and opportunities that writing the ‘radical other’ involves.

Michael Rands was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He received his MA from the University of Cape Town. His manuscript, a novel, Praise Routine Number Four was published by Human and Rousseau Publishers. He worked in the television industry as a writer and director before moving to Japan where he taught in a high school for three years.

“Writing the Radical Other” Details & Registration

Dream Artistry Workshop

Have you ever felt like every good story has already been written?
Then tap into your dreams for fresh ideas that are uniquely yours.

leslie halpern dream artistry workbook

This workshop explores where dreams come from, how you can remember them better, what they mean, and how you can use them to inspire your writing. Through a brief history of dream interpretation to current theories on dreaming, you’ll gain insight into how others have used dreams as inspiration for their creative work.

Each night’s dreams hold the secret to a richer understanding of yourself and provide an endless source of inspiration for your writing. Unleash your potential by learning how to understand dream code. We’ll look at how individual dreams and recurring dreams can be understood and then adapted for your poetry, short stories, essays, plays, and other forms of art.

“Dream Artistry” Details & Registration

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