This workshop was offered in 2022. See this year’s workshops.

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Beginning Your Novel Workshop

Writing workshop in New Jersey
January 14-17, 2022
Led by Roberta Clipper

This workshop will help you begin the novel you’ve always wanted to write. Come with ideas and notes and develop a plan for writing a must-read book. Learn how to structure your plot, develop your characters, explore different points of view and improve your dialogue-writing skills. Discussions, writing prompts and supportive feedback will get your big project off to an energized start.

*Limited to just 10 participants.* 

 

“Writing can be solitary and lonely. The Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway is like entering a special world. Novice or experienced, young or old, outgoing or shy, everyone can find their space to write and celebrate humanity.”
~ Martha, Colonia, NJ

 

Roberta Clipper

Roberta Clipper has published two novels-in-stories under the name Robbie Clipper Sethi, The Bride Wore Red (Picador) and Fifty-Fifty (Silicon Press), as well as short stories in The Atlantic Monthly, Mademoiselle, the Philadelphia Inquirer and a number of literary magazines and anthologies. Her fiction has won a National Endowment for the Arts award and two fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. On a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, she spent a “monsoon semester” teaching creative writing at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, India, and in the summer of 2019, she taught English in Prague, Czech Republic. She is currently Professor Emerita (retired) from Rider University, where she taught fiction, poetry, expository writing and literature. Most recently she had a story published in More Challenges for the Delusional. To read some of her work, visit robbieclippersethi.com.