A diverse collection of workshop offerings devised to provide you with the tools you’ll need to deepen your story and enhance your writing. There’s workshops covering all mediums as well as several focusing specifically on screenwriting. Click on a course below to find out more.
2025 Workshop Schedule
- January 18: Free Scene Critique Workshop Intensive
- February: The Idea Factory: A Genre-Hopping Writing Workshop
- April/May: First Draft Forward Screenwriting Workshop
- 2025 Annual PennWriters Conference – Multiple Workshops
- July: From Page to Screen – Crafting Visual Stories
- September: Script Surgery – The Art of Precision Rewriting
- November: The Things They Carry
Signup is now open with something for everyone. There’s an introductory screenwriting course for those transitioning from prose to screenplays to a workshop on script surgery for those ready to rewrite. There’s cross-medium workshops as well, covering topics important no matter whether you’re working in prose or the visual medium including an exploration of expectations in different genres and diving deeply into the use of props and setting to evoke and challenge your characters’ journey.
Some of these workshops will be hosted by the PennWriters Association while others are directly hosted through this site. All the workshops meet on Zoom with supplementary material provided via YouTube and DropBox.
November 2025: The Things They Carry
Sponsored by PennWriters - Full Course
Explore how characters' interactions with objects can deepen your story. Learn to use props and "bits of business" to enhance characterization, add subtext, and propel your plot forward. Suitable for fiction writers of all levels and genres.
Format: Weekly on-demand lectures, worksheets, and live online workshop/feedback sessions with fellow writers
Duration: 4 weeks
When: Tuesdays 7-9pm, ET (November 4-25)
Price: $75 members, $100 non-members
Click below for more information OR! If you’d prefer the one-on-one route, here’s information on coaching services.