<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(61, 61, 61); font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px; "><center><font color="blue"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b>DUE TO SOLD-OUT WINTER WORKSHOPS, NEW, 4-WEEK, DISCOUNTED LATE WINTER SESSIONS HAVE BEEN ADDED</b></font></font></center><center><font color="blue"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b>AT THE CHAGRIN VALLEY WRITERS' WORKSHOP </b></font></font></center><center><font color="blue">With Award-Winning Novelist, Short Story Writer, Nonfiction Writer, Playwright and Film Producer Scot Lax<br>Call 440-248-8457<br>or e-mail <a href="mailto:info@scottlax.com">info@scottlax.com</a> for Registration Form and information<br><br></font></center><center><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF">The Chagrin Valley Writers' Workshop</font></center><center><font color="blue">84 N. Main St., Ste. A, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022</font></center><center><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000FF"><br></font></center><center><font color="blue"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b>New Late Winter Offerings Below</b></font></font></center><font color="blue"></font><br><left><font color="blue"><left><font color="blue"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b>Workshop No. 1 – The Art of Fiction: Short Story & Novel with Scott Lax.</b></font> The class will run on consecutive Saturdays from 1 PM until 3 PM. Feb. 27, Mar. 6, 13 & 20. Cost: $120 for four sessions. Description: Do you want to write fiction that grabs readers and keeps them reading? This class is where you learn the art and craft of character, plot, setting, dialogue, point of view and how to weave elements together into fiction that lives and breathes. Students also learn to think like fiction writers. The classes are fun, challenging, and are for anyone from beginners to accomplished writers. <br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b>Workshop No. 2 – The Art of Literary Nonfiction: Essay & Memoir with Scott Lax.</b></font> Consecutive Saturdays from10 AM until 12 Noon, Feb. 27; Mar. 6, 13 & 20. Cost: $120 for four sessions. Description: Literary Nonfiction is telling the truth in a way that is lyrical, compelling and true. It is not a kind of distorted “creative nonfiction” where facts are fudged for the sake of a good story. When a reader reads well-written essays and memoirs, he or she trusts that the words are truthful and the author is saying something new about his or her subject. This class will teach you how to look deeper at your subject – even if it is yourself – and put it on paper in a dynamic way. If you apply yourself you’ll emerge from this class with new skills – but also new understandings about your writerly self, and about how you look at the world as a writer.<br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b>New! Workshop No. 3 – Manuscript Workshop with Scott Lax</b></font>. Consecutive Tuesday Evenings from 7 PM until 9 PM. March 2, 9, 16 & 23. Cost: $120 for four sessions. Description: Do you have a manuscript of fiction or nonfiction? Do you feel something is lacking in it, but you’re not sure what? It helps to get “fresh eyes” on your manuscript and to discuss what works, what doesn’t, and maybe even get new ideas for it. At our Tuesday evening manuscript workshop, you can get that kind of input and help. Students are asked to submit up to 15 pages of a fiction or nonfiction manuscript – short story, novel or memoir excerpt, for example. If it’s time for you to take that next step with your work, this workshop is for you.<br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><b>Testimonial:</b></font> “Scott Lax is a gifted teacher and writer who manages to bring knowledge and sensitivity to the critiquing process. His insights and commentary foster a nurturing workshop environment within which noticeable creative progress can be and is achieved. The number of returning students who repeat his workshops is a testament to his skill and appeal as both an instructor and purveyor of the written word.” – Michael Ferrari, two-time student of Scott Lax and the author of Born to Fly, winner of the 2007 Delacorte Yearling Award for middle grade fiction. 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