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Surprise Yourself: Pathways to Unexpected Fiction

The Writer's Well

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Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 at 06:30 pm

402 W Main St, Waynesboro, VA 22980-4511, United States

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Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 at 06:30 pm (EDT)

402 W Main St, VA 22980-4511

402 W Main St, Waynesboro, VA 22980-4511, United States

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Surprise Yourself: Pathways to Unexpected Fiction
Five-week writing workshop
Mondays, September 22 - October 20
6:30-8:00 pm
Instructor: Bonner Odell

This five-week study group and writing lab isn’t an instructed class—it’s a deep dive into "The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises that Transform Your Fiction" by Brian Kitely. Developed over fifteen years directing the University of Denver’s creative writing program, Kitely’s exercises are designed to shake up your habits and challenge your assumptions about storytelling. Together, we’ll explore unorthodox prompts on point of view, character creation, imagery, revision, and more. You’ll leave with fresh inspiration, unexpected discoveries, and an expanded sense of what fiction can be.

The class will take place at Stone Soup Books in Waynesboro (402 W Main Street). Workshop fee is $135.

Register now at https://www.thewriterswellva.com/classes.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Bonner Odell spent eighteen years in the San Francisco Bay Area working as a performing arts writer, editor, and educator before moving to Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and founding the Writer’s Well. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Braided Way Magazine, East Bay Monthly, SF Weekly, East Bay Express, In Dance, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Raleigh News & Observer, and other publications, and her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Bonner writes grants for the American Shakespeare Center, where she serves as Associate Director of Development. A Tai Chi Chuan instructor and former dancer, she is particularly interested in how embodied experience informs the practice of writing.


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Surprise Yourself: Pathways to Unexpected Fiction, 22 September | Event in Waynesboro | AllEvents
Surprise Yourself: Pathways to Unexpected Fiction
Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 at 06:30 pm