Lighthouse Literary Guild

Fall 2017 Courses 

The Lighthouse Literary Guild brings together lifelong learners of all ages to enhance their writing skills. Through short courses, retreats and visiting scholars the Guild offers opportunities for the casual and serious writer. The Guild is a writing community celebrating the shared solitary experience of “putting pen to paper.”

Spring 2017 Session II courses begin the week of Sept. 18 and run for six weeks through Oct. 27. Each class is 90 minutes, and class sizes are kept small to foster engaged participation. There is a $60 fee for each course. 

For more information contact the Center for Extended and Lifelong Learning at cell@salisbury.edu or by calling (410) 543-6090.

Using Poetic Devices to Enrich Your Writing 
with Nancy Mitchell

Mondays beginning 9/18 from 4:30-6 pm. 

In weekly workshops we will critique writing with an eye/ear/mind/heart to how successful fellow writers have been in articulating intention with a variety of literary techniques. Writing will be generated by prompts given by the instructor at the beginning of each class. Three days before class meets fellows will e-mail each other work, which they will critique before class. In workshop we will share these critiques with fellow writers. 

 

 

Using the Masters to Master Your Voice with Shannon Hinman

Wednesdays beginning 9/20 from 4:30-6 pm.

Using the Masters to Master Your Own Voice is a course that uses artful and unique sentences from literature to teach participants to structure similarly complex sentences. Using the Killgallon Method of Sentence Composing, participants can create their own unique sentences while simultaneously learning varied sentence structures. The course is an exciting mix of grammatical application with intuitive and artful sentence composition.

 

 

 

Grammar for Grown-Ups with Susan Canfora.

Thursdays beginning 9/21 from 2:30-4 pm. 

In an atmosphere of encouragement and camaraderie, we will discuss the more frequently abused rules of grammar, covering topics such as pronoun agreement, dangling participles and correcting run-on sentences. We will review basic grammar -- parts of speech, tenses, passive and active voice, comma splices, punctuation and proper sentence structure -- build vocabulary and learn to write in an effective and engaging manner. We will read and share examples of others' and our own excellent writing, with the goal of embedding correct grammar and liveliness into everyday writing.

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More Information

For more information, if you have questions, or would like to become an instructor please contact the Center for Extended & Lifelong Learning at cell@salisbury.edu, by calling (410) 543-6090 or visit our website.