Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm at Story Parlor
3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31
Facilitated by: Bruce Spang
Early bird $250 | Register by February 16, 2026 (discount applied at checkout)
Regular Price $295 | Effective February 17, 2026
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience. We recommend signing up early!
Refund and other policies can be found here.
Translating your life experience into prose--be it fiction, prose poems, or non-fiction--requires you to use five elements of style. Each week, we will learn how to weave a story by focusing on these elements and applying them to your story. We will be building your imaginative muscle. We will study plot, character development, point of view, dialogue, and use of figurative language. We will use a workshop model, bringing in our work, examining aspects of it in established writers each week, practicing how to incorporate it into our writing, and refining it into a finished story.
Open to beginners and established writers.
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Bruce Spang, former Poet Laureate of Portland, is the author of two novels, The River Crossed (2024) and The Deception of the Thrush.
He has published five books of poems, including Twist (2025), All You’ll Derive: A Caregiver’s Journey. He has a new book of letters, Dear Teen, Dear Poet: Coming of Age in Letters (2026), and a memoir, No Way Back: A Young Man’s Search for Home (2026). He teaches at the Great Smokies Writing Program.
He lives in Candler, NC, with his husband, Myles Rightmire, and their two dogs.