As a writing teacher and workshop leader, Judy Reeves has taught innovative classes that motivate her students to keep their pens moving and to come back for more. Following is a partial list of the scores of classes, workshops and groups she’s created and taught over the past twenty-five years.
If you or your organization or writing group is interested in having Judy present a workshop or speak at a meeting, email Judy at judy[at]judyreeveswriter[dot]com.
Art and Craft of Creative Writing – teaching the craft, discovering the art
The Art of Sustaining – How to finish what you begin and how to begin again; How to develop a practice that keeps the writer writing
Blurring the Boundaries – the Confluence of Fiction, Real Life and Imagination – Mix the facts of real life and the “what if” of fiction with imagination and voila: story
Elements of the Craft – Techniques for Prose Writers
Fictionalizing Real Life – Writers lead double lives. Both as participants and observers, and all of it is grist for our writer’s mill
Flash Fiction – There’s more to the form than word count; the workshop explores what it requires besides brevity
Going to the Source – Each human life is unique and valuable and infinitely rich with the fodder for creating stories
Into the Deep – Exploring what causes a writer to keep her head above water and suggesting techniques for diving in. Life jackets optional
Show, Don’t Tell – a workshop exploring this most fundamental writerly advice
Stories Held By Things – The writer’s work: finding and revealing the stories held within the stuff of our lives
Turning Flax into Gold – Spinning Memories into Stories. Our memories are thick with the stuff that makes good stories, fictional or “true”
Truth is in the Detail – Addressing the use of specificity and how to select and render the telling detail
Wild Women Writing Workshop – Using the passages of women’s lives to tell our stories
Women Who Howl at the Moon – a Full Moon Writing Workshop – Writing with moonstruck women by the light of the full moon (can be done at any full moon in any location)
A Writer is Someone Who Writes – Claiming yourself as writer, for beginning and returning writers
The Writer’s Journal – Writers from Virginia Woolf to Anias Nin to May Sarton have kept journals. This workshop explores techniques for keeping a writer’s journal
Writing Character – How to go deeper into character, writing both inside and outside the story
Writing from the Senses – The how and why of writing from the senses, with lots of examples and writing exercises
Writing Marathons – all-day, non-stop writing marathons using classic writing practice techniques
Writing Outside the Story – Sometimes writing outside the story is a way to get inside it
Writing the Journey – Explorations into the story within the journey (note: this is not a workshop on travel writing)