Workshops & Teaching
Adrienne Brodeur brings more than three decades of experience as a writer, editor, and literary leader to her workshops. Drawing on her work as the founding editor of Zoetrope: All-Story, an acquiring editor, and the author of Wild Game and Little Monsters, she teaches writers how to transform experience into story, sharpen their pages, and develop a more discerning editorial eye.
Upcoming Workshops & Retreats
FOREWORD RETREATS · ARCACHON, FRANCE · SPRING 2027 · TAUGHT WITH NANCY JOOYOUN KIM
BORROWED FROM LIFE: TRANSFORMING EXPERIENCE INTO STORY
Whether we write fiction or memoir, lived experience inevitably finds its way onto the page. In this generative workshop, we’ll explore how to transform the raw material of experience into compelling stories—what to preserve, compress, rearrange, invent, or leave out—and how to uncover the emotional truth beneath the literal facts.
Writers of all levels are welcome.
Online & On-Demand Classes
WHAT SEPARATES A GOOD PIECE OF WRITING FROM A GREAT ONE?
After three decades working on both sides of the page—as a founding editor, acquiring editor, and author of the memoir Wild Game and the novel Little Monsters—Adrienne Brodeur believes the answer is almost always a matter of attention.In this 90-minute Zoom workshop, Adrienne shares five practical, hard-earned lessons drawn from her editorial career and her own writing life. Through close reading, live editing, and hands-on exercises, you'll learn how to stop explaining what the reader can already feel, build authority at the sentence level, discover (rather than manufacture) your own voice, and cut with the kind of precision that makes a manuscript come alive.
FIVE THINGS I’VE LEARNED AS AN EDITOR THAT MADE ME A BETTER WRITER
Join me for this two-hour class, where I’ll share five practical lessons I’ve learned during more than three decades as an editor and author.
We’ll explore where authority in a sentence comes from, why over-explaining diminishes emotional power, how to recognize scenes that aren’t earning their keep, and how to develop an internal editor who sharpens your work without silencing it. Through close examples and live editing, I’ll show you how attention, patience, and precise revision can help good writing lift off the page.