Name: Craft of Fiction Workshop Series, led by Jason Tanamor
Start: 2025-03-01T10:30:00-06:00
End: 2025-03-01T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Midwest Writing Center

Craft of Fiction Workshop Series, led by Jason Tanamor – March 1, 8, 15, 22
What: Craft of Fiction Workshop Series
Who: Midwest Writing Center + Jason Tanamor
When: First Four Saturdays in March 2025 (March 1, 8, 15, 22), 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Where: Midwest Writing Center (ground floor of the Rock Island Public Library downtown branch, 401 19th St. Rock Island, IL)
Cost: Per workshop $30 members / $40 non-MWC members; For all four workshops $100 members / $140 non-MWC members
The Midwest Writing Center is proud to announce our first workshop series of 2025, featuring award-winning author and Quad City native Jason Tanamor.

This workshop series is for fiction writers who have a project they are working on currently—either a finished manuscript or a work-in-progress—who are looking to develop that work and pursue publication. The four workshops, which include instruction and exercises, are as follows:
Day 1: Plot Dynamics (the basic elements of plot)
Day 2: Conflicting Dialogue (how to make your dialogue worth it)
Day 3: Scene by Scene (how to write scenes to sustain tension and conflict)
Day 4: Action is Character (ensure characters are always in motion)
Writers can attend individual workshops, or they can register for the entire series and save $5 per meeting. The meetings will be held at the Midwest Writing Center’s offices in the downtown branch of the Rock Island Public Library during the first four Saturdays in March.
To sign up for this workshop, please visit the MWC website to register online at https://www.mwcqc.org/craft-of-fiction-workshop-series/ (you do not need to have a PayPal account, FYI), or call 309-732-7330.
Send questions via email to Sarah Elgatian: [email protected]
Instructor bio:
Jason Tanamor is a Filipino-American writer and author. Named as one of the “5 Best Modern Filipino Writers” by Pinas Global Newspaper and listed as one of Positively Filipino’s “Fil-Ams Among the Remarkable and Famous,” Tanamor is the acclaimed author of the Filipino-themed novels Vampires of Portlandia, Love, Dance & Egg Rolls, and The Legend of Sensei Tsinelas. He was nominated for the 2024 UCLA Allegra Johnson Writing Prize and the 2024 UCLA James Kirkwood Prize, and he has been featured in several Filipino publications like Esquire Philippines, CNN Philippines, Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Asian Journal. Tanamor currently lives and works in Illinois.
This workshop is made possible thanks to the support of the Illinois Arts Council.