Price range: $330.00 through $365.00
10 available
Date: Monday – Wednesday, September 28-30, 2026
Time: 10 am–1 pm
Registration Deadline: Thursday, September 24, 2026
Location: Glen Arbor Arts Center Classroom
Skill: Beginner to Intermediate
This introductory course will teach participants how to write a vignette. Each session will be interactive, as part of a roundtable format. Participants will take part in verbal warmups to create dialogue and shape the writing group, explore brainstorming techniques, craft rough drafts, and learn how to refine and write vignettes in final form.
Vignettes are snapshots of a moment in time, flashes of memories, glimpses of an episode in your life. A series of vignettes, sequenced together, can become a memoir about an important period in your life. Vignettes are not short stories – they have no plot. They are not meant to be essays.
Objective: Skill Development, Creativity Enhancement
Outcome: Development of Personal Style, Inspiration and Creativity
Johnston M. Mitchell is the recipient of three artist-in-residence writing awards from the State of Michigan’s Arts & Cultural Affairs program. Mitchell writes non-fiction, and especially enjoys lexical repetition poetry.
His writings are driven by experiences of living abroad for over a decade, where he worked in journalism and media while based in Paris, and as a program officer and consultant in free and independent media development as part of the greater democratization and governance era in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe.
Mitchell believes that where you’ve been and what you’ve lived can best drive your writing. It offers everyone their own unique platform. Seeking truth through writing drives his practice and teaching, and it has been derived from his academic studies and professional tenures involving the U.S. First Amendment and its umbrella of freedom of expression.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Behavioral Communications from Valparaiso University, a Master’s in Media Management from The University of Georgia, and is an instructor of Creative Writing at the Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Pen. Writing pad. Water. Snacks.
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