Are you planning to kick off 2025 by revising and submitting your work? Jump into gear with this two-hour workshop taught by renowned short story writer and novelist Joanna Pearson. In this workshop fundraiser for hurricane relief in Western North Carolina, we will focus on workshopping student pieces with an eye toward strengthening our approach to revision.  Students who are interested in participating should have an approximately 4,000 word short story draft (or excerpt) ready to submit by January 10. Registration will close on January 10 to allow time for work to be distributed and read in advance of our first meeting on January 24.  (Depending on the number of participants, this will be either a single session or two-session workshop.)

Instructor: Joanna Pearson

Date: January 31, 2025

Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Second session date & time (depending on number of participants): Saturday, February 1, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Level: Since we will begin discussing student pieces the very first session, some familiarity or comfort with a workshop experience may be useful.

8 seats max

Location: Flyleaf Books, 752 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Cost: suggested minimum donation of $150 to World Central Kitchen at https://wck.org/

(To register, please click the "enroll now" button and fill in your information. Then, make a donation to World Central Kitchen and email a copy of your receipt to asimkin [at] redbudwriting [dot] org

You will receive confirmation of completed enrollment once the donation receipt has been received.)