Instructor: Tina Tocco
Dates: 6 Mondays: October 28; November 4, 11, 18, Skip 25; December 2, 9
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: $300 Nonmembers, $192 Writer/Reader Members, $168 Senior, Teacher, Student, Military/Veteran, Librarian Members
Are you someone who feels more productive in the company of other writers? Do you try to carve out writing time, but something always gets in the way? Whether you’re new to the writing world or have decades of experience, everyone needs some accountability and a nudge now and then. That’s what this group is all about. In these six sessions, we’ll stay accountable to one another with weekly check-ins (no guilting or shaming allowed!), support each other in our writing, do writing sprints, and share our work (totally optional). No need to have a work-in-progress—you can start something totally new every week. Whatever keeps your fingers flying. Spend time with other writers and your own creativity. Open to all genres and levels of experience.
About the instructor:
Tina Tocco is a Pushcart Prize nominee. As a writer for both children and adults, her work has appeared in kiddie magazines, such as Highlights, Cricket, Humpty Dumpty, AppleSeeds, and Odyssey, and in literary journals, including New Ohio Review, River Styx, Crab Creek Review, Passages North, Potomac Review, Portland Review, Sou’wester, and Italian Americana. Tina’s writing has also been featured in Wild Things: The Best of Italian Americana (Fordham University Press, 2008), The Best Small Fictions 2019 (Sonder Press, 2019), Best Nonfiction Food (Woodhall Press, 2020), and other anthologies. A runner-up for the SCBWI’s Work-in-Progress Grant, Tina was also an honorable mention in the River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest and a finalist in CALYX’s Flash Fiction Contest. Her interview on flash and the craft of writing, “No Wasted Words,” appears in Roanoke Review. In 2021, she was a reader-in-residence for flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. Tina earned her MFA in creative writing from Manhattanville College, where she was editor-in-chief of Inkwell. She has taught adults and kids for Hugo House, GrubStreet, Hudson Valley Writers Center, Arts Escape, Kids Short Story Connection, the SCBWI, and other organizations.
We offer financial aid and payment plans. Please email edu@indianawriters.org for more information.
