Intensive Creative Writing Workshops in May at Florida Center for the Literary Arts‏

May 6-9, 2009


Four days of intensive workshops on fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plot, and more! All of them taught by respected visiting writers in the heart of downtown Miami at the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College.

Download the Writers Institute 2009 Brochure (PDF)


Confused about how to plan your Writers Institute experience?
Check out our handy scheduling grid (PDF).


Quality workshops? Of course, but the Writers Institute is so much more:

• Daily Briefing Lectures – One topic per evening. Learn why an independent editor might be the answer to your publishing woes and how to approach (and get!) a literary agent. Plus learn from the experiences of two first-time authors. Hear first hand how publishing worked – or didn’t – for a novelist and a memoirist.

• Manuscript Consultations - One-on-one sessions with the pros and feedback on your manuscript! Space is limited.

• Lunchtime Reads - Each day, gather for lunch and to hear Writers Institute faculty read from their work.

• Literary Happy Hour - On Friday evening, May 8, from 5-6 p.m., rub elbows (and clink glasses) with the Institute’s authors and literary professionals.

• Pitch-o-rama 2009! On Saturday, practice the art of the one-minute pitch before a panel of industry pros. Get feedback on your book idea and free advice.



- How to register (includes link to registration forms, fees and submission instructions)


- 2009 Workshops:

Four-Day Workshops:
Writing Memoir with Esmeralda Santiago

Opening up the Poem with Mark Doty

Revision for Fiction and Nonfiction with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni


Three-Day Workshops:
Navigating Fictive Distance with Percival Everett

Writing Short Stories that Sing with Steve Almond

Understanding Plot with Lynne Barrett

Hard Boiled Investigative Techniques All Writers Should Know with Pete Collins



- 2009 Daily Breifing Lectures:

You've Written a Book, Now What? with Andrea Askowitz and Anjanette Delgado (FREE!)

Top Ten Reasons Why You Need an Editor with Emily Heckman

Recession-Era Publishing: An Agent's POV with Joelle Delbourgo



- Agent Manuscript Consultation:

Agent Manuscript Consultations with Emily Heckman and Joelle Delbourgo.