Writing Retreat Pop-up Workshop: Postcard Poetics

Postcard Poetics is an adventure in alternative logic, a workshop where we let go of intentions in order to explore the materiality of language and create poetic artifacts born of community and generative constraints. All you need is something to… Continue Reading…

Writing Retreat Workshop: Writing Fiction

Well-crafted short stories and novel chapters have a lot in common: They employ many of the same elements of writing — solid narrative arc, strong voice, the right point of view, among various other elements. Editors are on the hunt… Continue Reading…

Writing Retreat Workshop: Memoir & Personal Narrative

Our lives are filled with exciting moments and ordinary ones, good times and trying times, bits and pieces that make us who we are now. During this intensive three-day workshop, we will mine our memories and experiences in order to… Continue Reading…

Writing Retreat Workshop: Explorations in Flash Forms

Flash fiction, mini-memoir, prose poems, short-shorts, palm-of-the-hand stories: These are a few of the wide variety of brief prose forms we will read, study, and attempt in this generative, multi-genre course. We will dig into the creative possibilities of these… Continue Reading…

Sew & Fold: Making a Writer’s Journal

Utilizing writing prompts, favorite quotes, and whatever else inspires you, we will sew our own handmade journals to take with us on our writing journeys. Each book will be utterly unique as you sew your own pages, choose your end… Continue Reading…

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