Take Ten! A Workshop for Writing the 10-Minute Play

Oct. 17, 2012 - PRLog -- The Salisbury Writers and Artists Guild, Inc. (SWAG) announces its first writing workshop, Take TEN! A Workshop for Writing the 10-Minute Play, to be held on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 from 6:00p.m. to 7:00p.m. at the Literary Bookpost, with creative and professional writers Jenny Hubbard and Katie Scarvey.

Lee Street Theatre, in Downtown Salisbury, North Carolina, is currently requesting submissions for their 5th Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival, comically themed “Hotel 6”, and this playwriting workshop is designed to generate new and exciting material, while discussing the structure and methods of the short form of the ten-minute play. Participants will leave the workshop with a viable template to write their ten-minute play and prepare it for submission to Lee Street Theatre.

Ms. Hubbard is a novelist and playwright with a practiced knowledge of the ten-minute play genre, and Ms. Scarvey is a professional writer in the process of learning to write ten-minute plays. Both have had their plays produced for the Lee Street Ten-Minute Play Festival.

This workshop will be held on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at the Literary Bookpost in Downtown Salisbury. Advanced registration is required and is $15 for writers or $5 for high school and college students.  Seating is limited. To register, email Tara Van Geons at info@swagnc.org and submit your payment via mail or by dropping your payment off at the Literary Bookpost, 110 S. Main Street, Salisbury.  Please make checks payable to the Salisbury Writers and Artists Guild, Inc. (SWAG).

SWAG is an interdisciplinary, creatively-driven, nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering interaction among writers, artists, musicians, students, educators, and the artistically-minded, thereby enhancing the vibrancy of the writing community and the arts in the Greater Salisbury area.  Its mission is to develop, coordinate, and promote activities for the citizens of the Greater Salisbury area to educate, foster literary and artistic appreciation, and provide for self-expression in literature and the arts.  SWAG is committed to community outreach, creativity, knowledge, understanding, connectivity, encouragement, and artistic collaboration.  

For more information about the Salisbury Writers and Artists Guild, Inc. and their upcoming events,  visit www.SWAGNC.org or their Facebook page at www.FaceBook.com/swagNorthCarolina.