Writing with Impact: A Screenwriting and Storytelling Workshop
Improve your storytelling, screencraft, and writing during this workshop that teaches how to bring more emotional impact to your writing.
How can I make my writing more resonant, more affecting, more emotionally impactful? How can I better reach my audiences and connect with them? How can I avoid cliche and write something authentic, personal and truthful?
If you are asking any of these questions, this is the perfect workshop for you. This writing workshop is based on the exercises from the book, THE SHORT, a book that uses writing short form media as a tool of unleashing your imagination.
While the book focuses on short form media, the chapters and exercises are excellent for engaging storytellers, screenwriters, and fiction writers as well as grant writers, nonfiction writers, and personal essay writers.
In this workshop we help old and new writers rediscover their passions by unlocking their personal themes, and learning how to unleash them into their writing.
Award-winning filmmaker, artist, writer and professor Rae Shaw takes participants through a few tools from her book to share some strategies for writing from a space of specificity, of intention, of purpose and meaning so you can better connect with your audience.
This inaugural two-hour story-based workshop will help you discover some insights about what you write, what is your "juice" as she describes it, and how to incorporate this knowledge into your writing.
Bring your notebook and a writing utensil or your favorite electronic scribble pad! Specific exercises include discovering your personal themes; exploring emotional loglines, thematic timelines, and excavating family or cultural totems as materials for new stories.
This prerequisite workshop also unlocks your ability to sign up for other upcoming courses, including short film workshops, feature film workshops, personal essay workshops for colleges and graduate school, and grant budgeting workshops.
Join us for this virtual session to learn how to become a more effective writer and impact your audiences in a more meaningful way.
Tickets are $10 + service fees up to March 10th. After the 10th ticket prices increase to $15.
Agenda will be uploaded in the week prior to the event.
About Rae Shaw
Rae Shaw is a Black female writer, filmmaker and artist whose work is interdisciplinary, exists over multiple media, and has been evolving to combat the boundaries of stereotypes impacting Black women and women of color. As a teaching artist, script archivist and shorts curator, her work seeks to defy category, challenge impossibility, build safe spaces for women and people of color to be vulnerable and authentic; and to play with the lines of genre, form and time.
Her previous screenplays have won honors at top screenwriting competitions in the world including Academy Nicholl Fellowship and the Austin Film Festival as well as Screencraft Horror, The Writers Lab, and the Golden Script. Her film work has screened at some of the top film festivals in the US including the Academy nominating Reel Sisters of the Diaspora, Roxbury International Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival.
During her career she has received numerous awards including the Marcus Early Career Award, Mellon Faculty Leaders Award, ITVS Diversity Development Fund Fellowship, Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller Screenwriting Fellowship, Delaware Division of the Arts Emerging Artists Fellowship, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Fellowship.
She is a bicoastal filmmaker and travels between Philadelphia and the San Francisco bay area where she teaches.
Improve your storytelling, screencraft, and writing during this workshop that teaches how to bring more emotional impact to your writing.
How can I make my writing more resonant, more affecting, more emotionally impactful? How can I better reach my audiences and connect with them? How can I avoid cliche and write something authentic, personal and truthful?
If you are asking any of these questions, this is the perfect workshop for you. This writing workshop is based on the exercises from the book, THE SHORT, a book that uses writing short form media as a tool of unleashing your imagination.
While the book focuses on short form media, the chapters and exercises are excellent for engaging storytellers, screenwriters, and fiction writers as well as grant writers, nonfiction writers, and personal essay writers.
In this workshop we help old and new writers rediscover their passions by unlocking their personal themes, and learning how to unleash them into their writing.
Award-winning filmmaker, artist, writer and professor Rae Shaw takes participants through a few tools from her book to share some strategies for writing from a space of specificity, of intention, of purpose and meaning so you can better connect with your audience.
This inaugural two-hour story-based workshop will help you discover some insights about what you write, what is your "juice" as she describes it, and how to incorporate this knowledge into your writing.
Bring your notebook and a writing utensil or your favorite electronic scribble pad! Specific exercises include discovering your personal themes; exploring emotional loglines, thematic timelines, and excavating family or cultural totems as materials for new stories.
This prerequisite workshop also unlocks your ability to sign up for other upcoming courses, including short film workshops, feature film workshops, personal essay workshops for colleges and graduate school, and grant budgeting workshops.
Join us for this virtual session to learn how to become a more effective writer and impact your audiences in a more meaningful way.
Tickets are $10 + service fees up to March 10th. After the 10th ticket prices increase to $15.
Agenda will be uploaded in the week prior to the event.
About Rae Shaw
Rae Shaw is a Black female writer, filmmaker and artist whose work is interdisciplinary, exists over multiple media, and has been evolving to combat the boundaries of stereotypes impacting Black women and women of color. As a teaching artist, script archivist and shorts curator, her work seeks to defy category, challenge impossibility, build safe spaces for women and people of color to be vulnerable and authentic; and to play with the lines of genre, form and time.
Her previous screenplays have won honors at top screenwriting competitions in the world including Academy Nicholl Fellowship and the Austin Film Festival as well as Screencraft Horror, The Writers Lab, and the Golden Script. Her film work has screened at some of the top film festivals in the US including the Academy nominating Reel Sisters of the Diaspora, Roxbury International Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival.
During her career she has received numerous awards including the Marcus Early Career Award, Mellon Faculty Leaders Award, ITVS Diversity Development Fund Fellowship, Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller Screenwriting Fellowship, Delaware Division of the Arts Emerging Artists Fellowship, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and Woodrow Wilson National Foundation Fellowship.
She is a bicoastal filmmaker and travels between Philadelphia and the San Francisco bay area where she teaches.
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- 2 hours
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