Write with Shelley
Shelley Read is an international bestselling author and a beloved, award-winning instructor with nearly thirty years of university-level teaching experience. A workshop with Shelley is sure to inspire your best writing and nurture your writer’s soul.
Upcoming Workshops
Mountain Words Festival
3-4pm | Panel: Behind the Cinderella Story: What Success Looks Like from the Inside
From strivey hustle to making and maintaining success, award-winning writers discuss their paths and the many twists their authorial arcs have taken. With Shelley Read, Claire Boyles, Olivia Chadha, and Anne Hillerman. Chaired by Manuel Aragon.
Location: King Community Room
Price: Free
10 -11am | Workshop: Place, Perception, and Process
Learn the many ways that intimate knowledge of place can meaningfully enhance your narrative and, yes, your life. In this interactive discussion, best-selling novelist Shelley Read will share her thoughts on the joys of authentic, intentional place-based writing, how to achieve it, and what she has discovered about why readers so broadly and genuinely crave it.
Location: King Community Room
Price: $40 | Purchase Here
Florence, Italy
May 3-18, 2024
Join Vita Institute for the Arts in beautiful Florence, Italy!
Vita’s CHARACTER OF PLACE program offers immersive, interdisciplinary workshops for artists and writers. Vita faculty are master teachers with decades of university-level teaching experience who are also advanced practitioners in their fields, making this program a unique opportunity to take your art to the next level while exploring the wonders of Italy!
2024 Florence Workshop details now available at www.vitainstitute.org!
Recent Workshops
Zibby Class: Writing Place-Based Narratives
September 26, 2023
Interactive Zoom Seminar 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (EST)
From Zibby Classes: “Shelley Read's debut novel Go As a River is being celebrated around the world as ‘a love song to Colorado.’ A strong sense of place can anchor and enrich writing craft, elevating setting to an essential part of the story. But how can writers best collect and express the most essential details of place? Join author and master teacher Shelley Read in this two-hour workshop that explores perception, landscape, belonging, and the many ways that place shapes narrative and narrative shapes place. Writers will come away with new techniques and a clearer sense of the role of place in your own experience and in your stories.”