With a new year comes creative resolutions, but it can take community and accountability to meet our goals. On Sat, Jan 15 from 1-2:30pm, join What Cheer Writers Club online for a Submission Bee—a chance to come together to submit finished stories, essays and poems to publishing outlets. We’ll discuss various submission platforms and tools, […]
Part hook, part summary, the book pitch is an important professional tool, allowing writers to create a compelling case for their story in the space of an elevator ride. At What Cheer Writers Club’s Pitch It!, author and book coach Mia Manansala will share helpful tips for crafting concise and compelling book pitches, then give […]
You're invited to An Introverts Ball, a What Cheer Writers Club fundraiser. This hybrid event lets you choose your level of comfortable engagement, with options to stay cozied up at home in your armchair, or drop by for some leisurely in-person and virtual entertainment. Pick up your party favors (BYO tote bag!) on Sat, Oct […]
In this workshop we'll explore storytelling through the mini-comic: a simple booklet made from a single folded sheet of paper with three interior spreads. Whether you're working with images or words, the miniature layout can be a generative blank slate for many creative practices, offering a unique opportunity to experiment with sequential storytelling. We’ll ask […]
Sometimes the events of a life can feel less like a typical story and more like a constellation of disparate parts. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to work with this phenomenon and give compelling shape and structure to memoir, investigating variations in structure from the simple to the complex in works by authors such […]
Rhode Island writers of color are invited to What Cheer Writers Club’s Creatives of Color Cocktail Chat online Fri, Aug 20 at 7pm. We'll be joined by Jabari Asim, author of seven books for adults and thirteen books for children and director of Emerson College's MFA program in creative writing. Bring your questions about the […]
Podcasting 101 is currently an online class focused on providing an introduction to podcasting and offering tips for recording from home. In this class we will: • Explore the extremely relevant and rapidly growing medium of podcasting • Give you tips for recording from your home studio • Introduce resources to help get your idea […]
Many have turned to poetry over the past year for both expression and consolation in the face of loss. On Fri, April 23 at 5pm What Cheer Writers Club celebrates the form in honor of National Poetry Month with a virtual showcase of Rhode Island poets reading their work.
In honor of National Poetry Month, What Cheer Writers Club is hosting two virtual write-ins where Rhode Island poets can meet and write alone, but together, for a focused hour set apart for them and their work.
Rhode Island writers, illustrators and podcasters of color are invited to What Cheer Writers Club’s B/I/POC Creatives Happy Hour online Fri, April 9 from 5-6pm. Come share about your creative projects, and how you are facing the unique challenges of creating and finding community as an artist of color in the age of Covid. The […]
