Classes with KACC

Instructor: Johnnie Bernhard
August 22 & 23
10:30am - 3 pm
$180

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Learn the essential skills to writing and publishing in a series of interactive craft classes designed for fiction writers. Each class will feature a fun assignment to jump start your creativity, while honing your writing skills.   

The workshop is led by former teacher and journalist, Johnnie Bernhard, who is passionate about reading and writing.  Her work(s) have appeared in Houston Style Magazine, The Mississippi Press, the international Word Among Us, The Texas Review, and the Cowbird-NPR production on small town America. She is the author of four books: A Good Girl (2017), How We Came to Be (2018), Sisters of the Undertow (2020), and  Hannah and Ariela (2022). Each novel has won both state-wide and national honors.

Johnnie was chosen as a selected speaker in the 2020 TEDx Fearless Women Series. She also supports young writers through the Letters About Literature program with the Texas Center for the Book and the Write for Mississippi program. In 2021, she was named a teaching artist with Gemini Ink Writing Arts Center of San Antonio and the national TAP Summer Institute 2021. Johnnie enjoys teaching workshops for writing communities across the country.

For more information about Johnnie, visit her website at:

www.johnniebernhardauthor.com

The Write Your Best Story workshop will be broken up into four sessions - a morning and afternoon session each day, with an hour break for lunch. The sessions are as follows:

• Publish Your Story: learn the differences between traditional, self, and hybrid publishing. Vet a literary agent and a publishing company. Write a query letter and synopsis based on industry standards.  

• The Writing Process: Prewriting, Writing, and Revision. Learn how to jump start your creativity through the writing process. Writers will focus on prewriting activities using a graphic organizer, structuring a plot, and finalizing word count in the revision process. 

• Fiction and the Editing Process: learn the differences between developmental editing and copy editing.  Writers will focus on eliminating unnecessary words and tightening the narrative pace of their writing.

• Creating Fictional Characters Who Come Alive: the protagonist and antagonist who make readers turn the pages. Writers will focus on “fleshing out” characters in this step-by-step approach to character development. 

Johnnie will have her books available for sale and signing after the workshop.

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Instructor: Debralee Sesma
Date: Sept. 27
Time: 1-3 pm
Audience: Ages 12+, teens and adults encouraged
Class limit: 20
$45

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Get ready to launch into a month of creativity with Art-Ober— an October art challenge inspired by the changing season, Texas Hill Country and spooky Halloween vibes. In this kickoff event, participants will:

• Create a DIY sketchbook (perfectly sized for the challenge)

• Receive a printed list of 31 prompts for each day in October and email encouragement throughout the month of October.

• Learn tips for sticking to a daily art practice

• Enjoy seasonal snacks, music and an inspiring creative atmosphere

Supply list:

A kit will be included for all the basic book making materials including: template for binding and corners, needle, thread and an assortment of cover decorations papers, fabric and embellishments.

Participants should bring:

• 16 papers for the book pages at 8 1/2 x 11 inches - Choose the kind of paper you enjoy making art on, it can be copy paper, watercolor paper, Bristol board, drawing paper, and even found paper like old calendars, paper shopping bags, and etc.....  Let your imagination run wild. 

• Scissors (small precision and large), exacto knife

• cereal box cut to 8 1/2 x 11 inches

• Cutting mat

• Metal ruler

• awl

• Glue stick, tape runner, and Aleene’s Tacky glue

• Rounded corner punch (optional)

  
  Debralee will send optional weekly e-mail encouragements and art prompts throughout October to participants. The class will also involve sharing progress on Instagram using #artoberkacc and tag @kacckerrville for fun and interactive engagement. There will also be a wrap-up party during the first week of November for participants to share the completed sketchbooks.
  
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