SNOW DATE INFORMATION: Big Project will meet Jan. 28th @10:am upstairs room.  SONGWRITING Make-up is not set yet. Stay tuned. We will email you.

PUBLISHING Intensive for Writers of Children Books and YA is  Saturday, the 28th! see workshop page.

Venu: new issue has a short story by Pam Muir of our Thursday group. Congratulations!

Check our events page POETRY OPEN-MIC NIGHT with Annette Basalyga.  February 16th, 7:30pm. sign up to tell a poem & bring your Valentine!  FREE Write Yourself Free(SM) Introductory Workshop, Thursday, Feb. 9th, 7:30pm sharp.  Screenwriting is Feb. 11th.

WYF Productions presents: BAD LOVE, Storytelling Fridays, Feb. 10th, 7:30sharp. $10 with wine & cheese. Sign up early! We were packed!

On Screenwriting (see more on Kudos) “Patrick’s screenwriting classes are brilliant at illuminating the bones of story-telling no matter what kind of writing you do.  All those slippery issues like genre, character, dialog, story-arc, etc. are infinitely clearer in the movies.  In fact, even non-writers curious about the gears and levers behind screen-magic would love these Saturday morning sessions.”  Wendy Kann, Casting with a Fragile Thread: A Story of Sisters and Africa, (Henry Holt & Co., 2006).

Write Yourself Free^SM Method of instruction (fiction, non-fiction, memoir, screenwriting) demystifies language arts, freeing each writers’ intuition, and stimulating creative process.  Nobody needs to aspire to write – we are all writers on the inside. With our method, you don’t wait for inspiration to tap into the deeper parts of your brain.  Using simple exercises, your characters will speak from behind the clutter of the conscious mind and start to live in your imagination.  Writing becomes pleasure not pressure.

And we’re more: Write Yourself Free^SM founders Tish Fried and Patrick McCord  envision a group of like-minded individuals sharing a place to work, drink coffee, and exchange ideas: a salon, of sorts, but gee, that sounds pretentious, maybe “a collective” is more like it. Hey we’re calling it The Writers’ Room. The Writers’ Room is the first floor of our storefront at 252 Post Road East  in the center of Westport in what looks like a little old red schoolhouse.  Editorial and Publishing Support at The Editing Company.com

Maira Kalman & Rick Meyerowitz Photo by Elizabeth Dorney