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A classroom of adults sitting at desks writing on paper or looking up at the instructor, presented with the Indiana Writer's Center logo of the silouette of a fountain pen on a red background.

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Get Started- Writing Workshop

with Barbara Shoup

2026-01-13 10:30:00 2026-01-13 12:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Get Started- Writing Workshop Got an idea you just can’t get down? Got a half-finished story you don’t know what to do with? Been thinking about writing for a long time and just not doing it? This class is guaranteed to jump start your creative juices and help you establish your own writing life. Irvington Branch -

Tuesday, January 13
10:30am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2026-01-13 10:30:00 2026-01-13 12:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Get Started- Writing Workshop Got an idea you just can’t get down? Got a half-finished story you don’t know what to do with? Been thinking about writing for a long time and just not doing it? This class is guaranteed to jump start your creative juices and help you establish your own writing life. Irvington Branch -

Got an idea you just can’t get down? Got a half-finished story you don’t know what to do with? Been thinking about writing for a long time and just not doing it? This class is guaranteed to jump start your creative juices and help you establish your own writing life.

This workshop is presented in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center. Check out other writing workshops at library branches this season!

And to get prepped, here are some book lists about writing!

Instructor Barbara Shoup is the author of eight novels for adults and young adults, most recently An American Tune and Looking for Jack Kerouac, as well as a memoir about writing, A Commotion in Your Heart, and Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process. Shoup is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center and a faculty member at Art Workshop International, in Assisi Italy. She hosts the Substack newsletter Book Pilgrim. A new YA, About Grace, is forthcoming from Querencia Press in 2025.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Class/Workshop |

TAGS: | Writing Skills | Writing | Adults | #Adult |

Irvington Branch

Phone: 317-275-4450

Hours
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We're closed Saturday December 13 due to inclement weather
Mon, Dec 08 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Dec 09 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Dec 10 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Dec 11 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Dec 12 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Dec 13 Closed
(inclement weather)
Sun, Dec 14 Closed

About the branch

This branch has served the Irvington community since 1903 when the Bona Thompson Library was donated to Butler College and soon became a public library branch. Following relocations in 1914 and 1921, a new facility was built on East Washington Street in 1956 and named for Irvington’s distinguished citizen, Hilton U. Brown. The Brown Branch closed its doors in 2001 to make way for the current 16,000-square-foot Irvington Branch that opened later that year.

Upcoming events

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Tue, Dec 16, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
This event is full

Wed, Dec 17, 10:30am - 11:15am

Wed, Jan 07, 10:30am - 11:15am

Tue, Jan 13, 10:30am - 12:00pm