2025 Fall
Instructor: Janet Cowperthwaite
Mondays • 8 classes • 9/15-11/10 (No class 10/13) • 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Class size 5-8 students
1 seats remaining
Location: Jewett 114
“What is the story only you can tell?” Lin Miranda asked this question in a recent interview. I feel that many of you are asking this question as well and are wondering how you can write your story or write your ideas for fiction or nonfiction. Here is an opportunity to do just that for two hours a session over an eight-week period. I have a new text and new prompts. We write at least two times a session. I write along with the class. We share some ideas and writing. I do not collect and correct your work. The only piece of work you pass in is the final piece you read at the end and that I collect to print in a chapbook. I provide a writer’s kit for newcomers and a syllabus of excerpts from the text and other information for everyone.
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This hybrid class meets
in-person and on Zoom.
There is a $10 fee
for printing and mailing,
payable at the first class.

Writers’ Workshop
Janet Cowperthwaite has worked with Writers’ Workshop in her second-grade class and in a graduate writing class. The workshop that Janet has been leading in Senior College has evolved from those experiences, and she feels her job is to be facilitator, encourager, and cheerleader.
Janet graduated from Houlton High School in 1959 and from the University of Maine in 1963 with a degree in English and credits to be certified as an elementary teacher. She earned a master’s in education, also from UMaine in 1992.