Creative Writers Circle

"How do I start?" 🤔

"Where do I go next?" 🗺️ 

"Is this good?" 👌🤌

"What's the point?" 🫠❓

Do you ask yourself questions like these when you sit down to write? You’re not alone! ✨

💡 The Creative Writers Circle is a community designed to provide inspiration, support, and connection for writers of all genres and experience levels. Each month, we'll get together to:

✒️ Write on different prompts and themes 🌈 ✏️

✒️ Celebrate our recent writing accomplishments 🥳 (and commiserate about our recent writing struggles 🙈)

✒️ Give and receive feedback on our current works in progress  💌 📝

✒️ Reflect on the role creative writing plays in our lives. 😌

Whether you've been working on a novel for years 📚 or have yet to write the first word of the poem in your head 🌱, you're welcome to join this safe and supportive community of writers just like you.

🙂 Note: Meeting facilitation will be in English, with opportunities for writing and discussion in English or Romanian. 

📍Where? Education Studio, Cluj-Napoca, str. Tipografiei, nr. 1, interfon 30, first floor.

📆 When? Once a month, on Saturdays, from 11:30 to 14:00. See dates below.

🎒 What to bring? 

A pen and notebook (or whatever you use to write) and a short excerpt of a work in progress you'd like to read aloud for feedback from the group (optional). 

🙋 Facilitator: Anthony Sorge is a writer and Education Studio volunteer with twenty years of experience teaching English language and literature. He believes in the power of writing, reflection, and relationality to help make the world a more peaceful place.

☀️ 26th of April

Theme: Making your voice heard

This month we'll focus on perspective and point of view. Who is the narrator of your story? Who is the speaker in your poem? How can we turn up the volume on that voice? Bring a short sample of your recent writing and try adding some more personality to your point of view, or come prepared to write something new!

☀️ 24th of May

Theme: Attention to detail

This month we'll take a zoomed-in and zoomed-out look at detail and description. We'll think about how much we want to put on the page and how much to leave to our audience's imagination. Bring a short sample of your recent writing that you can experiment with cutting back and bulking up, or come prepared to write something new!

☀️ 21st of June

Theme: Genre-bending

This month we'll explore different genres--especially those we tend to avoid in our own writing. We'll discuss the conventions of various genres and we'll see what happens when we apply these conventions to our own work. Bring a short sample of your recent writing that you can try transforming with a genre makeover, or come prepared to write something new!

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🎟️ To sign up for one of the workshops, we ask you to register and purchase a ticket by completing a short form, so we can have your spot ready.

🎟️ You can purchase multiple tickets in one order (if you are coming with a friend for example), but each of you has to complete a registration form.

The Supporter ticket pricing allows you to pay as much as you consider and can afford, starting from 40 RON/workshop.

🎟️ You can also purchase a ticket for all three upcoming workshops at a smaller price 💸 100 RON.

👉 If you want to use a discount code, please purchase the ticket with the Fixed price of 40 RON and enter the code in the check-out process.

🌀 Once you purchase a ticket, your spot will be saved at the workshop. If for any reason you can no longer attend the workshop, you can give your spot to a friend to attend. The money from your purchase will not be returned if you don't attend, and it will only be refunded if the workshop will be cancelled.

💬 If you have any questions, please contact us by sending a message on our website. 💬

☀️ Lets fill our pages with what inspires us! See you at the workshops!