Orlando Writers Workshops

Specialties

Orlando Writers Workshops offers creative writing classes to Orlando writers. Whether you just have an idea for a book or find yourself in the midst of writing a novel, in our creative writing courses you will learn how to write and how to publish. Each creative writing workshop is not merely a writing group, as the workshops are led by Vanessa Blakeslee, an MFA in Writing graduate, published writer in fiction and poetry, and writing mentor. Whether you seek to explore creative writing for yourself, to sharpen your craft as a creative writer, to prepare for study in an MFA program, or write your novel and get it published, we offer a range of options – from one-​day «boot camps» to weekly writers workshops, as well as manuscript consultation.

Meet the Business Owner

Vanessa B.

Business Owner

Vanessa Blakeslee lives in Maitland, Florida. A graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, her short fiction is currently forthcoming in the Cimarron Review, The Madison Review, The Georgetown Review and other literary magazines nationwide. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Hidden Oak, Bellowing Ark, The New York Quarterly, Illuminations, and other journals and her chapbook was named a finalist in the 2008 YellowJacket Press Award for Florida Poets. Prior to starting Orlando Writers Workshops, Vanessa taught at UCF and Rollins College.