Meet Lauren Krouse, our brand-new memoir teacher

North Carolina, Teachers, CoursesEmily CataneoOctober 11, 2023cary, cary nc, memoir, intro to memoir, nonfiction, raleigh nc, raleigh

Meet a Redbuddy! Q&A with Casey Shapack

This month, we’re doing a series where we introduce you to our Redbud students! In this, our inaugural post in this series, meet Casey Shapack, who’s taken Writing the Novel, a few Advanced Workshops, and, most recently, Writing Feminist Works.

Courses, Interview, Writing Advice, Meet a RedbuddyEmily CataneoDecember 8, 2021interview, raleigh, Raleigh writing workshop, raleigh north carolina, students, meet a student, writing community

Meet Rachel Simon, our Writing for the Internet instructor

Meet Rachel Simon, deputy editor of Hello Giggles and writer whose work has appeared in NBC News, the New York Times, Glamour, and many others. Rachel will be teaching our first ever Writing for the Internet class, in which students will workshop pitches and stories and will talk about publication, submission, and polishing their work.

Interview, Teachers, CoursesEmily CataneoNovember 13, 2020nonfiction, internet, writing for the internet, online writing, online writing classes, online writing workshop north carolina, raleigh, durham, chapel hill

Meet Isabel Walsh, our new Fiction I instructor

If you’re new to Redbud, or new to our fiction offerings, look no further than Isabel Walsh’s Fiction I class, which starts next week! Isabel, an NC State MFA graduate and all-around wonderful writer and teacher, will be leading this Fiction I course on Zoom, on Monday nights. Read on to learn all about her!

Courses, Teachers, Interview, RedbudEmily CataneoAugust 12, 2020instructors, writing workshop north carolina, WRITING WORKSHOP RALEIGH, writing workshop chapel hill, writing advice, classes, online classes, north carolina

Introducing Allison Mitteer, our Teen Writers Teacher

Courses, Interview, Teachers, Writing AdviceEmily CataneoMay 29, 2020teens, teen writers, teenagers, writing camp, summer camp, online learning, writing for teenagers, online writing classes, online writing workshop north carolina

Coronavirus update: we're going remote

Today, after much consideration, Arshia and I made the very difficult decision to move all of our Redbud classes online for at least the first few weeks of our March/April round.

Courses, Teachers, RedbudEmily CataneoMarch 13, 2020writing workshop, online writing classes, writing workshop north carolina, online writing workshop north carolina, durham writing workshop, chapel hill writing workshop Comment

Coronavirus Updates

Hi everyone! As you all know, coronavirus is rapidly becoming a concern throughout the United States, and many universities and other institutions are canceling or postponing events. We wanted to let our Redbuddies (as we call our Redbud community) that we’re aware of this situation and let you know what we’re thinking about in terms of contingency plans.

Courses, RedbudEmily CataneoMarch 11, 2020workshops, writing workshop raleigh, writing workshop north carolina, writing workshop chapel hill, writing workshop durham, online writing classes

Meet our Advanced Essay Instructor, Duncan Murrell

We’re so excited to welcome Duncan Murrell to Redbud! Duncan is an editor at Harper's Magazine, The Oxford American magazine, and The Normal School. He has also written for The Highline @ The Huffington Post, The New Republic, Men's Journal, Our State Magazine, and Southwest Magazine. His work has been recognized in Best American Essays and he holds a master’s in journalism and an MFA in fiction. Duncan will be teaching a class called Advanced Essay for us—this is a must-take if you’re interested in nonfiction. Read on to find out more!

Courses, Interview, TeachersEmily CataneoFebruary 16, 2020writing workshop north carolina, writing, writing tips raleigh, writing workshop, raleigh, raleigh writing, writing workshop raleigh, quail ridge books

A Q&A with Fiction Instructor Shervon Cassim

This week, we sat down with one of our fiction instructors, Shervon Cassim. Shervon teaches Fiction I and Fiction II for us, in addition to his role as assistant director to the NC State MFA program and his position as president of the North Carolina Writers Network’s board.

Interview, Courses, TeachersEmily CataneoFebruary 5, 2020fiction, writing workshop north carolina, writing workshop raleigh, writing, writing tips raleigh, chapel hill, north carolina writing workshop, North Carolina state university, mfa north carolina

Meet our New Playwriting/Screenwriting Instructor

We’re offering our first-ever screenwriting/playwriting class starting in January 2020! We sat down with instructor Annie Sarac, who holds a playwriting MFA from UNLV and has had plays staged in Ohio, Nevada, and California, to find out more about her and this exciting new course.

Interview, Emily, Courses, TeachersEmily CataneoDecember 17, 2019writing workshop north carolina, writing, writing tips raleigh, screenwriting, theater, playwriting, writing adviceComment

Meet the Folks Behind Epilogue, Chapel Hill's Newest Bookstore

We were thrilled to see a new bookstore open in Chapel Hill, especially one as stylish and welcoming as Epilogue—the pastries! the books! the murals! We’re excited to partner with them in the coming months: we’re hosting a literary trivia night at Epilogue on Friday, Dec. 13 and are hosting one of our six-week Fiction I workshops there starting in January. In advance of that, we wrote to Miranda and Jaime to learn a bit about how Epilogue came to be and their vision for the store going forward.

Interview, CoursesEmily CataneoDecember 2, 2019chapel hill writing workshop, chapel hill, bookstore, books

Meet our new Fiction I instructor, Ben Murphy

Ben Murphy teaches fiction and freshman composition at North Carolina State University, and is a graduate of the NC State MFA program. He’s going to be teaching our Fiction I class at Quail Ridge Books on Monday nights starting in January. We sat down to talk with Ben about his favorite authors, his teaching philosophy, and more.

Courses, Interview, Redbud, TeachersEmily CataneoNovember 25, 2019north carolina writing workshop, Raleigh writing workshop, durham writing workshop, writing, writing workshop north carolina, North Carolina state university, mfa north carolina

Meet Chris Tonelli of So&So Books

My definition of ekphrasis is p r e t t y loose...but in terms of this particular workshop, let's say that it means a piece of writing that is inspired by and/or responds to a work of art.

Interview, CoursesEmily CataneoNovember 7, 2019writing workshop north carolina, writing workshop raleigh, writing, poetry, fiction, ekphrasis

Meet Shervon Cassim, our newest teacher

You might already know Shervon Cassim; he’s a fixture in the North Carolina writing community. He’s the president of the North Carolina Writers’ Network Board of Trustees and a senior lecturer at North Carolina State University, where he teaches fiction and creative writing to undergrads.

Courses, RedbudEmily CataneoSeptember 19, 2019teachers, writing workshop north carolina, writing workshop raleigh, writing advice, North Carolina state university

What Happens in a Workshop, Anyway?

So what happens at a Redbud workshop? Our six-week offerings are going to look a little different, since this was a three-day intensive. But all of our classes will combine the same melange of craft activities and feedback activities.

Writing Advice, Redbud, CoursesEmily CataneoJuly 15, 2019writing, writing advice, writing tips, Raleigh writing workshop, chapel hill writing workshop, durham writing workshop, north carolina writing workshop, classes, redbud writing projectComment

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