PATHWAYS TO PUBLICATION SEMINARS are intensive half-day courses in literary genres, publishing, editing, digital communications, and promotion. These seminars are open to CCWC members and nonmembers. They’re a great opportunity to learn, network, and improve your literary skills.

Plan Ahead for  Saturday April 5, 2025 

John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum

397 Main Street

Hyannis, MA. 02601

Morning Session: 10:15 AM-12:45 PM  How to Write a Great Scene
The filmmaker Howard Hawks once said, “A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.” Substitute “movie” with “short story,” “novel,” “essay” or “memoir” and we might have a prescription for how to inject your story with dramatic, cinematic flair. Includes writing exercises with author and teacher performer.

Ethan Gilsdorf

Ethan Gilsdorf is a writer, teacher, performer, and the author of the memoir Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Wired, O the Oprah Magazine, Brevity, Electric Literature, Poetry, and The Southern Review, among other publications, and named “Notable” by The Best American Essays. He teaches at GrubStreet in Boston, where he leads the Essay Incubator program; at LitArts RI; and at the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University. More info: ethangilsdorf.com.

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Afternoon Session 1:15-3:45 PM  Creating Charismatic Characters:

This interactive session explores intriguing questions for writers from all genres: how to make literary figures resonate with readers and how to infuse your own writing with memorable characters. We will explore Charisma, and the qualities that define it with examples from our favorite books and our own works. Come prepared with examples, and your own works in progress.

Arlene Kay

Arlene Kay crafts fiendishly clever mysteries with a heaping side of humor and a dash of romance. Her 13 published works include three stand-alone novels, and three series, The Boston Uncommon Series (available on audio); The Creature Comfort Series; and the current Cosmetic Crimes Series. Her fourteenth novel Dazzling Death, will release this August, followed by Surviving Spouse; and Death at the Altar. She is a former Senior Executive at the Treasury Department who has renounced her bureaucratic ways in favor of genteel murder (writing).

REGISTRATION

**MEMBERS:  $30.00 per session

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NONMEMBERS: $40.00