You've got something to say! Whether you choose to explore writing fiction or memoir, Robyn can help you find your voice and fine tune your writing. With inspiring exercises and encouragement, you’ll learn the elements and techniques of strong writing. This class will help you focus and follow through on your writing goals. Please bring 6 copies of a creative writing piece to class of up to 1000 words. Call 371-4151 or email rldsr12@aol.com to sign up!

 

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  Robyn Ringler is a writer, lawyer, nurse and the owner of East Line Books in Clifton Park.  Her articles have been published in the Albany Times Union, Newark Star-Ledger and have been sent out over the New York Times wire.  Robyn’s Letter to Al Pacino appears in Women’s Letters:  America from the Revolutionary War to the Present published by Dial Press.  Her essay Dissection was  published in Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies published by Kent State University Press.  She has written regularly for Nursing Spectrum and has read her essays on WAMC’s The Round Table and NPR’s The Health Show and 51%, as well as Martha Stewart Radio.  Robyn is currently studying creative writing in a Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of Tampa and she earned a certificate in creative writing from the Gotham Writers Workshop in New York City. 

 

 

 

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”—Willa Cather  

These four-day summer writing camps, taught by Robyn Ringler, are designed to instill in your child or teen an absolute joy of creative writing. No writing experience is necessary and each student will have fun whether they come into the session loving or hating writing. Within the supportive environment of the East Line Books classroom, Robyn will lead each class through—sometime hilarious, sometimes serious—writing exercises, games, and lessons on particular writing skills that will help them enjoy writing—and do it well—for the rest of their lives. These camp sessions will cover fiction writing (how to write a short story or novel) and memoir writing (writing about your own experiences). Students may take one 4-day session or all of them!  

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You've got something to say! Whether you choose to explore writing fiction or memoir, Robyn can help you find your voice and fine tune your writing. With inspiring exercises and encouragement, you’ll learn the elements and techniques of strong writing. This class will help you focus and follow through on your writing goals. Please bring 6 copies of a creative writing piece to class of up to 1000 words. Call 371-4151 or email rldsr12@aol.com to sign up!

As I write I create myself again and again ~ Joy HarjoJoin us for an exploration of enjoying poetry. We'll read, we'll write, we'll laugh and in the process you'll discover new poems you love and new skills for enlivening your writing. The class will meet once a week for 4 weeks and culminate in a small chapbook of poetry of participants' work.

Carol Graser has been published in many literary journals and has one full length poetry collection, The Wild Twists of Their Stems (Foothills Publishing, 2007). She organizes and hosts the monthly poetry reading series at historic Caffe Lena in Saratoga Springs and has been running poetry workshops for years. Carol recently won first place and an honorable mention in the CNY branch of the National League of American Pen Women's annual poetry contest. 

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