Mar 7 • Making Sense of Revision Workshop by Suzanne Morgan Williams
March 7 @ 10:00 am - March 21 @ 12:00 pm
Making Sense of Revision Workshop by Suzanne Morgan Williams
Saturday Mornings – March 7, 14, 21, 2026
10:00am to 12:00pm
Sierra Arts Academy Training Studio – 1995 Dickerson Rd, Reno
Registration Fee: $85
SAF Membership Registration Discount: $75
Registration Link: Making Sense of Revision
The first session, The Big Picture, focuses on helping writers identify why they wrote their work and what they want readers to take away from it. This clarified intention becomes the guiding principle for the entire revision process. Activities include developing concise “elevator pitches” for the work and identifying the ideal reader or target audience.
This workshop has been taught successfully many times, most often in three sessions over a day and a half at writers’ conferences. Spreading it out over three weeks is expected to be even more effective, giving participants time to reflect on concepts and apply them to their own work.
Suzanne Morgan Williams is the author of the middle grade novel Bull Rider (Margaret K. McElderry Books), the YA novel Sierra Blue, and eleven nonfiction books for children, with more titles forthcoming. Since publishing her first book, Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China (Pacific View Press), her writing career has taken her into classrooms to connect with students, to universities and museums to collaborate with experts, and into communities to share stories and experiences.
