ONLINE Research for Writing
Thursday | June 8 | 6:30-8:30pm MT
Instructors: Ashley Holloway and Jen Knox
MEMBER PRICE: $33.75 (with member coupon AWCSM25)
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $45.00
Research helps writers connect with readers. It helps shape the narrative, create subtext, and refine storylines. Without firsthand knowledge on a subject matter, writers are limited in their ability to convey their passion about a topic or story.
Join writers Jen Knox and Ashley Holloway for a fun and engaging evening learning the necessary skills and strategies to conduct research for writing. This information can be used for writing a novel, creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, opinion columns, or essays. In this two-hour online session, participants will explore how to create an effective system to organize and store research, helpful tips and strategies to find accurate information, how to find inspiration, and how to incorporate this into their writing.
This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.
Ashley Holloway teaches healthcare leadership at Bow Valley College in Calgary, AB. She is a nurse with a Master of Public Health, a graduate diploma in Global Leadership, with further studies in intercultural communication and international development. Ashley’s work has appeared in the Short Story Dispenser, The Nashwaak Review, The Globe and Mail, Magna Publications, The Prairie Journal, CARE Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Canadian Dimensions, and Lead Read Today. Ashley has co-authored three books and reads manuscripts, writes book reviews, and is an editor for Unleash Press. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
Jen Knox (jenknox.com) earned her BA in English from Otterbein University and an MFA from Bennington College. She founded and co-runs Unleash Creatives (unleashcreatives.com), a holistic arts organization based in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Jen works as a leadership program manager and lecturer at Ohio State University and teaches writing workshops. Her short fiction and creative nonfiction are taught in classrooms and appear in over a hundred publications around the world, including The Best Small Fictions (edited by Amy Hempel), Chicago Tribune, Chicago Quarterly Review, Room Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. Her other collections include After the Gazebo (a Pen/Faulkner nominee), The Glass City (Press Americana Award for Prose Winner, Reissued 2023), and Resolutions. She is the recipient of the Montana Prize for Nonfiction from CutBank and the Editor’s Choice Award from Flash Fiction Magazine. We Arrive Uninvited, her first novel, was one of the top-rated projects of 2021 on Coverfly's Red List for family stories, won the Steel Toe Books (STB) Award in Prose, and was released in March 2023.