Workshops & Online Classes
with Meredith Sue Willis
For Teachers of Writing
Here's a good essay on making writing conferences with your students informal, quick, and effective. It's in Teachers & Writers Magazine, reprinted from Scholastic.
Also, see MSW's books about writing:
School Visits and Workshops for Kids
With Meredith Sue Willis
Heywood Avenue School, Orange, NJ
Meredith Sue Willis is an experienced and enthusiastic writer-in-the-schools. She worked first with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City, and has now been associated
for many years with the New Jersey Writers Project. She is also a past
Distinguished Teaching Artist of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She works as a visiting writer inpublic schools in NJ and elsewhere. Her books about the teaching of writing (withlots of exercises for teachers to use!) are Personal Fiction Writing, Deep Revision, and Blazing Pencils.
When she makes author visits to 3rd -5th graders. she uses her books about Marco, and for middle schoolers, she talks about Billie of Fish House Lane and her young adult novel, Meli's Way.
Park Ridge High School, Park Ridge, New Jersey
She also visits high schools to give writing workshops and to talk about Meli's Way. For more information, if you are in New Jersey, go to the New Jersey Writers Project, or get in touch with MSW directly via email at Meredithsuewillis (at) gmail.com.
For more about MSW's recent young adult novel, Meli's Way: "Meli's Way is deftly crafted and inherently absorbing read from beginning to end...very highly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as school and community library YA Fiction collections."
-- Midwest Bookwatch/Children's Bookwatch
Also see MSW's Web Page Special Page for Teens (and one for Kids too! )
High Rocks Camp for girls, Pocahontas County, WV
MSW Reads from and Talks about Her Work
MSW speaking at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County,
New Jersey on "A Novelist in the Digital Age."
Meredith Sue Willis is an experienced and entertaining speaker and reader from her work. Invite her to your group for a combination reading and discussion of Appalachian literature or the ethics of writing fiction. Get in touch with her by email at Meredithsuewillis (at) gmail.com.
MSW at "Lunch With Books" at the Ohio County Library, Wheeling, WV
Classes
NYU SPS Advanced Novel Writing Seminar
Most semesters MSW teaches Novel Writing WRIT1-CE9357 NYU's SPS in New York City. Also look for Novel Tune-Up and Jump-Start Your Novel at NYU.
Also watch for her next online class.
Book Groups, Readings, Workshops, and Talks
A Reading at Jefferson Market Lbrary in NYC
Meredith Sue Willis loves to visit book groups that read her books! If you are within driving distance for her, she'll happily visit your group to take questions, talk about her books, or just listen to you talk. If you live farther than commuting distance, get in touch with her about a virtual visit via Zoom other. Email her at Meredithsuewillis (at) gmail.com.
She also gives general interest talks and writing workshops at libraries and other venues on topics like "Finding Stories" and "Strategies to Start Your Novel." Email her at Meredithsuewillis (at) gmail.com.
To learn more about her books, visit the book page. E-mail MSW for suggestions about what might be a good book for your group; or, sign up for occasional newsletter, "Books for Readers."
Speaking to an anthropology class at William Paterson University
Students at William Paterson College; workshop at the NYU Bookstore
Speaking at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County
A workshop in Madison, New Jersey
MSW E-books!
(To buy any of these books as e-books, click on the image. They are also available at the Kindle Store and at the Nook Store as well as the iBook store and other e-book stores.)
Irene Weinberger Books.... an imprint of Hamilton Stone Editions. Check us out!
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