Queer Writers Club | Online (12/13)
Queer Writers Club | Online (12/13)
Upcoming Date/Time: Saturday, December 13 from 3 to 5pm over Zoom
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The Queer Writers Club is a monthly meeting for LGBTQ+ writers; open to both beginners and experienced authors, regardless of genre. This is a queer writer’s safe space, a friendly club to hone your craft through creative writing exercises. This time includes focused practice in a group setting and a chance to meet other LGBTQ+ creatives. Whether you’re jotting down poems in a journal or working on your fifth draft of a Netflix-produced screenplay, you’re welcome to percolate fresh ideas, help form a new writing community, and share in the company of this generative space!
Hosted by Colleen O’Doherty (she/her), this club is a project of Chicago Filmmakers and Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival.
Technical requirements: Participants can access the club via computer (preferred) or smartphone. A working camera and microphone is strongly recommended for full participation. Participants will need to install the Zoom app on their computer or smartphone, but no account is required.
About Colleen O'Doherty (She/Her)
Colleen O'Doherty is a Chicago-based teacher and writer. She has her MFA in play and screenwriting from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and her Master in Teaching from the College of Saint Mary. Her plays have been part of many festivals, including Northern Bound, co-written with Michael Oatman, was part of Station Hope at Cleveland Public Theater in Cleveland, OH in May 2017; Ricky and Ready was in Secret Theater's Act One: One Act Festival, NYC, February 2020, where it made it to semi-finals, and the Warner Theater International Playwright festival in 2022; Missing Ingredient was selected for NYC's Project Y Theatre Company's Zoom series and was released in November 2020. It was also nominated for best short in the first annual Young-Howze Theatre Awards, February 2021. Her full-length, Stripped, was a 2022 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2nd Rounder, a quarterfinalist for ScreenCraft's 2018-19 stage play competition based out of LA and a 2018 Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women Finalist. It was part of TheatreMidwest's Fresh Produce Concert Reading Series in October 2020 in Des Moines, IA and a 2020 semi-finalist for UP Theater’s Renewal Reading Series in NYC. Her newest full-length play, Stories: on the Brink was produced by Anastasis Theatre Company as part of the Great Plains Theatre Commons in Omaha, NE in fall 2021. She has been teaching and facilitating writing workshops since 2014, and has taught in K-12 schools, prisons, foster care support groups and many other settings. https://colleenodoherty.com/
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