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  • January 2026

  • $40 POP UP: QueryTracker 101

    January 13 @ 7:00 PM EST - 8:30 PM EST
    Michael Chorost
    The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street
    Bethesda, MD 20815 United States

    QueryTracker is a powerful tool for finding literary agents, sending them queries, and tracking their responses. In this course we’ll cover the basics: search tools, the who-represents-whom tool, and data view options. We’ll also look at cool features that are a little harder to find: pasting in agency/agent notes, flagging agents by priority, and setting […]

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    $40.00 8 tickets left
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    Let’s Write! A Generative Workshop

    January 15 @ 10:00 AM EST - February 12 @ 12:00 PM EST
    Melissa Webster
    The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street
    Bethesda, MD 20815 United States

    What is this next story, and how shall I tell it? Using various writing prompts will invite ourselves into new stories, and explore new ways to tell familiar ones. Each week we will write together in response to prompts, and have the option and opportunity to share our fresh writing for positive feedback. We will […]

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    $250.00 1 ticket left
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    How to Discover Your Voice

    January 17 @ 10:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST
    Laura J. Oliver
    Zoom

    Agents say it all the time. What sells a manuscript? A standout voice. Acquire the tools you need fo...

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    $60.00 21 tickets left
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    Let the Soft Animals Speak: Writing the Wild with Craft and Care

    January 22 @ 7:00 PM EST - 9:30 PM EST
    Courtney Sexton
    The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street
    Bethesda, MD 20815 United States

    When Mary Oliver tells us to let the soft animal of love what love, we know exac...

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    $60.00 5 tickets left
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    Creating Conflict & Tension

    January 24 @ 10:00 AM EST - 12:30 PM EST
    Kathryn Johnson
    Zoom

    Strengthening the conflict in any type of fiction will bump up the tension and turn limp, ordinary f...

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    $60.00 26 tickets left
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    UnClogging Your Brain

    January 27 @ 7:00 PM EST - 8:30 PM EST
    Lisa Jan Sherman
    The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street
    Bethesda, MD 20815 United States

    Prompts will spark memories, characters, and places, turning them into poems, scenes, dialogues, and...

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    $60.00 8 tickets left
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    Focus on Scene Building

    January 31 @ 10:00 AM EST - 12:30 PM EST
    Kathryn Johnson
    Zoom

    Scenes are the building blocks of fiction. They convey the vision of the story in the author’s head ...

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    $60.00 26 tickets left
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  • February 2026

  • The Artist’s Way: A Year of Creative Reawakening w/ Lindsey Van Wagner

    February 1 @ 12:00 AM EST - December 31 @ 12:00 AM EST
    Lindsey Van Wagner
    Wet Ink

    Through reflection, community, and practice, you’ll awaken the artist within and build a creative life that feels aligned and alive. This year-long journey through The Artist’s Way offers a sustained path for creative reawakening and artistic growth. Writers, artists, and creative seekers will move chapter by chapter through Julia Cameron’s classic text, reconnecting with their […]

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    $2,000.00 19 tickets left
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    Boot Camp for Writers

    February 5 @ 10:30 AM EST - March 26 @ 1:00 PM EDT
    Beth Kanter
    Zoom

    Each session of Boot Camp for Writers will begin with a prompt followed by writing time. Participant...

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    $350.00 16 tickets left
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    Finish Writing Your Book!

    February 7 @ 10:00 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST
    Eva Langston
    The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street
    Bethesda, MD 20815 United States

    Have you been working and reworking the beginning of your manuscript but can’t seem to push past a c...

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    $60.00 7 tickets left
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    Writing Food & Memories

    February 7 @ 11:00 AM EST - February 21 @ 1:00 PM EST
    Ofelia Montelongo
    Zoom

    Food carries the stories of who we are and where we come from. In this workshop, we’ll explore how t...

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    $150.00 11 tickets left
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    Interiority: What Is It and How Do I Do It?

    February 9 @ 7:00 PM EST - 9:00 PM EST
    Aaron Hamburger
    Zoom

    In this one-session workshop we'll dive into the creative writing workshop buzzword "interiority" so...

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    $60.00 18 tickets left
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    $40 Pop Up: Write Your Query Letter

    February 10 @ 7:00 PM EST - 8:00 PM EST
    Lacey N. Dunham
    Zoom

    Learn the ins and outs of writing the perfect query letter! For many writers, to get a book deal first requires getting a literary agent. Through the querying process, prospective authors pitch their book projects to agents using a query letter—a very short introduction of less than 500 words to you, your book, and why […]

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    $40.00 19 tickets left
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    Scene Stealers: Details and Dialogue

    February 17 @ 6:00 PM EST - March 3 @ 8:00 PM EST
    Kelly Sather
    Zoom

    What makes a scene stay in your mind, is it rhythmic language, a character’s gesture, or that line o...

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    $150.00 14 tickets left
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    How to Write a Lot

    February 21 @ 10:00 AM EST - 12:30 PM EST
    Kathryn Johnson
    Zoom

    You may think you don't have the time, energy, or inspiration to write because of your hectic lifest...

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    $60.00 29 tickets left
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    So, You Want to Write a Book?

    February 21 @ 11:00 AM EST - 1:00 PM EST
    Lindsey Van Wagner
    The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street
    Bethesda, MD 20815 United States

    Do you feel called to write a book? Is there something important that you have always wanted to say ...

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    $60.00 7 tickets left
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    Mapping Strategies for Story Structure

    February 28 @ 10:00 AM EST - 12:30 PM EST
    Lynn Auld Schwartz
    Zoom

    There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for story structure. Let’s discuss a plan that works for you....

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    $60.00 27 tickets left
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  • March 2026

  • Introduction to Art Journaling

    March 9 @ 6:30 PM EDT - March 23 @ 8:30 PM EDT
    Joan Waites
    The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street
    Bethesda, MD 20815 United States

    Using quotes, poems and/or personal reflections, students will combine words with easy to follow art...

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    $150.00 10 tickets left
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    Let’s Write! A Generative Workshop

    March 12 @ 10:00 AM EDT - April 9 @ 12:30 PM EDT
    Melissa Webster
    The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street
    Bethesda, MD 20815 United States

    Using various writing prompts will invite ourselves into new stories, and explore new ways to tell f...

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    $215.00 8 tickets left
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    Getting Unstuck

    March 19 @ 7:00 PM EDT - March 26 @ 9:00 PM EDT
    Sarah Birnbach
    Zoom

    Journal techniques are like tools in a writer’s toolbox. Just as a hammer is the right choice for placing a nail in the wall, so a particular journal method can be exactly the right tool to use to advance the dialogue in a story, to help craft the end of a novel, or to create […]

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    $115.00 12 tickets left
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    Awakening Through Words: A Spring Equinox Workshop

    March 21 @ 10:30 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
    Lindsey Van Wagner
    The Writer’s Center 4508 Walsh Street
    Bethesda, MD 20815 United States

    As the world tilts toward renewal, this workshop invites writers to align with the energy of the Spr...

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    $60.00 10 tickets left
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    Show, Don’t Tell

    March 24 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT
    Nikki Frias
    Zoom

    Show, Don’t Tell is a hands-on writing workshop designed to help participants transform plain prose ...

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    $60.00 15 tickets left
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  • April 2026

  • Your Writing Journey Begins

    April 9 @ 7:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT
    D. M. Cross
    Zoom

    You have a story inside you, but how do you even start to bring it out? With so many crazy things go...

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    $60.00 20 tickets left
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    Creating Backstory & Flashbacks

    April 11 @ 10:00 AM EDT - 12:30 PM EDT
    Kathryn Johnson
    Zoom

    Every character in your story has a past. The events that occurred in a character’s life before they...

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    $60.00 29 tickets left
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