Tahoe Writers Works

11/22/2025

Upcoming in the Writers’ Annex
2026 Short Course Offerings Announced

The Writers’ Annex is pleased to invite you to explore our 2026 course offerings. With two five-week courses, and a new array of one-night courses, we are working to sustain a year-round space where we can gather online, as a community, in service of the written word in all of its manifestations. This new array of course options will offer something for everyone - from fiction, nonfiction, and memoir to poetry and craft.

Below, learn about the courses including series tuition discounts.
Financial aid is available, as well as our usual returnee discount.
One-Night Courses
Lorca Short Course
Yeats Short Course
Season Pass Discount

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11/22/2025

The Flash Challenge: November 10 – November 23, 2025
https://mastersreview.com/flash-challenge/

10/29/2025

24 hrs left to get eBook for $1.99! Wherever you listen to books :)

"Heidel achieves the rare literary gem: a non-fiction memoir that is as compelling as a novel. Like its young protagonist, this book is fierce and furious, but also hilarious. I devoured the book in one emotional day as I fell in love with every character, especially young Bright Eyes who hides her baby sister under covers and in corners from the monsters their mother lets into their home" (ps. Thank you to the lovely reader who wrote this review!)

Bridey is tethered to her mom's addiction to dangerous men who park their Harley-Davidsons in the house and kick holes in all their doors. Raised to be her mother's keeper, rescuer, and punching bag, Bridey gets used to stuffing her life into black trash bags, hauling them between Alaska and ...

10/09/2025

A reading list for “Banned Books Week” . . .

10/05/2025

TWW ONLINE WORKSHOP
6:00 pm, Tuesday, October 7

Discussion: Trials and tribs, local literary events, and workshop. We'll be workshopping a novel excerpt by Henry Millstein, and YA historical fiction by Bahia Yackzan. Our open workshop is for writers of any genre, and we meet every other Tuesday—check our calendar for exact dates and other upcoming writing events: https://tahoewritersworks.com

10/05/2025

Author Event - Todd Borg
Tuesday, October 7, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Carson City Library Digitorium

New book: TAHOE SPEED
(the 23rd book in the Tahoe Mystery series)

Part thriller and part love story between a French chef, Genevieve Laurent, and a Tahoe speed skier, Colin Burns, TAHOE SPEED is getting great reviews from readers as well as professional reviewers.

Support Friends of the Carson City Library!

09/24/2025

Fractured and Fused Prize: September 14 to November 16, 2025
https://fracturedlit.com/fractured-and-fused-prize/

09/23/2025

TWW ONLINE WORKSHOP - TOMORROW EVENING!
6:00 pm, Tuesday, September 23

Discussion: Trials and tribs, local literary events, and workshop. We'll be workshopping a novel excerpt by Laura Fay, non-fiction by Carol Johnson, and non-fiction by Kayla Anderson. Our open workshop is for writers of any genre, and we meet every other Tuesday—check our calendar for exact dates and other upcoming writing events: https://tahoewritersworks.com

09/23/2025

THINGS OF THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT
A Short Course on Herman Melville's MOBY DICK
The full book in six guided sessions with a bonus session

Join us online Sundays beginning October 19 at 4PM Pacific Time for the latest Short Course from the Writers’ Annex. Peter Orner leads Things of This World and the Next: A Short Course on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Six sessions, plus a bonus session, additional discussion groups and readings available.

led by Peter Orner On August 1, 1851, as he was finishing Moby Dick, Herman Melville rode over to see his neighbor and friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia. Going to see Hawthorne was Melville's own birthday present to himself. The two spent hours talking and, even though Sophia fo

09/10/2025

September Author Event
Browsers Corner Book Store
Friday, September 19, 5:30-6:30pm

Browsers Corner Book Store is excited to host Bill Brown, former Reno TV anchor and journalist. He is the author of 19 books about ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

09/07/2025

TWW ONLINE WORKSHOP - THIS WEEK
6:00 pm, Tuesday, September 9

Discussion: Trials and tribs, local literary events, and workshop. We'll be workshopping a novel excerpt by Ivy Ge, and a short story by Joseph Kim. Our open workshop is for writers of any genre, and we meet every other Tuesday—check our calendar for exact dates and other upcoming writing events: https://tahoewritersworks.com