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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.

Register 17 Seats Remaining

Get Started- Writing Workshop

with Barbara Shoup

2026-10-19 12:30:00 2026-10-19 14:00:00 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. Nora Branch -

Monday, October 19
12:30pm - 2:00pm

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!

Instructor Barbara Shoup is the author of nine novels for adults and young adults, most recently An American Tune, and About Grace, and a memoir, A Commotion in Your Heart. She is the the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Her short fiction, poetry, essays and interviews have appeared in numerous small magazines, as well as in The Writer and The New York Times travel section. Shoup is the recipient of numerous grants from the Indiana Art Commission, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the 2006 PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship and the 2012 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Award. Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults.  Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. Currently, she is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center. and a creative writing faculty member of Art Workshop International in Assisi. She hosts the Substack newsletter Book Pilgrim. 

Get ready for this writing workshop with some book lists about writing:

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Class/Workshop |

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

Nora Branch

Phone: 317-275-4470

Hours
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Mon, Sep 14 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Sep 15 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Sep 16 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Sep 17 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Sep 18 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Sep 19 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Sep 20 Closed

About the branch

A new library for the rapidly-expanding area of suburban Washington Township was made possible by the donation of a 2.56 acre lot from Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Eiteljorg in 1968. The Nora Branch opened in 1971 on North Guilford Avenue and was expanded to 18,500-square-feet in 1990.

Upcoming events

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Sat, Sep 19, 10:30am - 11:30am

Mon, Sep 21, 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Cancelled
Wed, Sep 23, 10:30am - 11:30am

Wed, Sep 23, 10:30am - 11:15am

Sat, Sep 26, 10:30am - 11:30am

Mon, Sep 28, 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Wed, Sep 30, 10:30am - 11:30am

Sat, Oct 03, 10:30am - 11:30am

Sat, Oct 03, 2:00pm - 2:45pm
Registration opens Saturday, September 19 2026 at 2:00pm

Mon, Oct 05, 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Tue, Oct 06, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Registration opens Tuesday, September 22 2026 at 3:00pm

Wed, Oct 07, 10:30am - 11:30am

Cancelled
Wed, Oct 07, 10:30am - 11:30am

Thu, Oct 08, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Registration opens Thursday, September 24 2026 at 2:00pm

Fri, Oct 09, 10:30am - 11:30am

Cancelled
Sat, Oct 10, 10:30am - 11:30am

Sat, Oct 10, 10:30am - 11:30am

Wed, Oct 14, 10:30am - 11:30am

Fri, Oct 16, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
This event is full

Sat, Oct 17, 10:30am - 11:30am

Sat, Oct 17, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Registration opens Saturday, October 3 2026 at 2:00pm

Mon, Oct 19, 12:30pm - 2:00pm

Mon, Oct 19, 6:00pm - 7:00pm