In our stories, how can we make sure that important characters have distinctive voices? On November 4th, Sparrow F. Alden will look at diction and syntax as two of the many variables to consider. Please Register here for the zoom discussion on Friday, November 4th at 6pm Eastern. The cost of the workshop is $30…
Welcome to Florida, friends! Leadership “A successful leader often combines courage, resolve, intelligence, intuition, persuasion, and physical ability. Often these qualities are accompanied by pride, entitlement, impetuousness, and a “fatal flaw” — yet a leader is also called to demonstrate humility, self-sacrifice, and regard for others. It’s a tall order. How are these qualities brought…
Join us for a party of special magnificence! We invite you to join us as we gather to celebrate the last episode of Season 1 of The Rings of Power with much fellowship and fun. This event is limited to in person attendance only due to the nature of the
Signum Academy’s Writer’s Club invites you to our Hobbit Day celebration! Hobbit Day is on September 22, the date of that most memorable birthday party, and the shared birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and Signum Academy invites you to our Hobbit Day celebration, where you can experience a taste of the instruction and knowledge…
The Wordsmiths of the Writer’s Forge bring you the first in a short series of Tools for the Toolbox. Friday the 16th at 6pm Eastern, The Shape of Story. Plenty of folks will tell you they have the One True Method of plotting out a story. But what if each form is valid and strong…
Join us on September 5th at 7pm ET for a Thesis Theater to explore issues that concern us today, and were ahead of their time in Tolkien’s writings.
Join us at 12pm Eastern on the 25th of August for this preview of the new courses in the Signum University MA Program.
Come check out Spanish Conversation Club with Pilar Barrera on Tuesday, June 21st, at 4:00pm Eastern Time. Pilar will be introducing her Spanish Conversation Club, which is an interactive club that meets online twice a week to support kids and teens who want to develop their Spanish conversational skills. Spanish Conversation Club focuses on conversational…
The Mind of a Maker: Story Tellers and Secondary Worlds “What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it…
Immersed in… We invite attendees and presenters to consider the many immersive experiences we encounter in art, literature, the study of language, and life. When a character in a book is brought into a fully encompassing experience, how are they changed? How can a work of art succeed or fail to wash over the participant?…