Writing Instruction

INDIANA WRITERS CENTER CLASSES FOR SPRING SEMESTER 2023

Greetings and Salutations my friends! Amazingly we are quarter into 2023 and SPRING HAS ARRIVED! I’m extremely excited to share my upcoming Indiana Writers Center Class Schedule for Spring Semester 2023! Please see the links below: Course Information Elements of Fiction 2.0: Discounted BundleInstructor: John F. AllenDates: 4 Wednesdays: May 03, 17, 31, June 14 2023Time: 7:00-10:00 PM ESTLocation: ZoomNonmemberContinue reading “INDIANA WRITERS CENTER CLASSES FOR SPRING SEMESTER 2023”

INDIANA WRITERS CENTER CLASSES FOR WINTER SEMESTER 2023

INDIANA WRITERS CENTER CLASSES FOR WINTER SEMESTER 2023
Greetings and Salutations my friends!

We’ve entered a BRAND-NEW YEAR, full of growth and promise. I’m excited to share my upcoming Indiana Writers Center Class Schedule for Winter/Spring Semester 2023!

COME JOIN ME FOR MY FREE SELF-PUBLISHING CLASS AT THE 2022 INDYPL AUTHOR FAIR ON SATURDAY 8/6/2022

Indiana Marion County Public Library 2021 Summer Reading Program, to Feature classes by John F. Allen Author!

Hey Indy Residents! Are you interested in learning more about Speculative Fiction and supporting your local libraries? If so, IMCPL & Indiana Writers Center have collaborated to present IMCPL’s 2021 Summer Reading Program! I will be teaching a Basics of Writing Speculative Fiction course at various library branches throughout the month of July! Discover anContinue reading “Indiana Marion County Public Library 2021 Summer Reading Program, to Feature classes by John F. Allen Author!”

John F. Allen will be featured author and panelist at Imaginarium Convention

This weekend is the first-ever Imaginarium Convention in Louisville, KY, a new type of creator/reader friendly convention, in which Seventh Star Press is front and center. I’ll be in the Seventh Star Press section with my Indy author peeps R.J. Sullivan and Eric Garrison, selling The God Killers, my debut novel and Book I in aContinue reading “John F. Allen will be featured author and panelist at Imaginarium Convention”

INCONJUNCTION SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY CONVENTION 2014 IS THIS COMING WEEKEND!!!

Inconjunction Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention 2014 is being held on the east side of Indianapolis, this Fourth of July weekend! It’s an awesome local event celebrating all things within the speculative fiction realms. This year I’m attending as part of the Speculative Fiction Guild (SFG) and we’re hitting the con in a big way. Continue reading “INCONJUNCTION SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY CONVENTION 2014 IS THIS COMING WEEKEND!!!”

IMAGINARIUM 2014 ANNOUNCED!

Welcome to Imaginarium 2014, a creative writing convention where ideas transcend reality! I am excited and extremely proud to announce that coming to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky from September 19-21 of 2014 is, The Imaginarium! This is a unique kind of convention offering a wealth of programming, events, and all kinds ofContinue reading “IMAGINARIUM 2014 ANNOUNCED!”

Come out to MAP Arts in the Park this Saturday and enter “The Spooky Author Book Bag Benefit Raffle!”

This Saturday, October 12, 2013, the Mooresville Arts Partnership is re-launching Arts in the Park, an annual all day festival exhibiting and celebrating all aspects of art expression in the area. My good friend and fellow local author R.J. Sullivan has ask for “a little help from his friends” and gotten it from, dark fiction authors me, Matthew Barron, Nicole Cushing, Continue reading “Come out to MAP Arts in the Park this Saturday and enter “The Spooky Author Book Bag Benefit Raffle!””

Indiana Horror Authors to offer workshops at Mooresville Arts in the Park Event

Mooresville Arts in the Park All Day Arts Festival Saturday, October 12! Pioneer Park–Link to directions and park website Flash fiction workshops and product tent! Preregistration preferred, walk-ins welcome Mooresville, IN Website and Facebook I’m very excited to announce an upcoming event taking place during the Arts in the Park festival at Pioneer Park on Saturday, OctoberContinue reading “Indiana Horror Authors to offer workshops at Mooresville Arts in the Park Event”

SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?

FIVE THINGS TO ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU BEGIN A CAREER AS A WRITER Many people who aren’t writers or who aspire to one day write the “NEXT BEST THING” have absolutely no idea what a writing life entails. It is because of their skewed and/or misguided ideas on what being a writer is about thatContinue reading “SO YOU WANT TO BE A WRITER?”