We’ll start with an accessible list-style poem that invites writers to excavate memories from their lives or that of their fictional characters. Then writers will be guided through a series of short instructions designed to develop a particularly juicy part of their list/poem by writing......
With Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer You have something to say, but your knees are knocking and your voice is shaking. How do you get your words off the page and into your voice, your body? This workshop is for poets interested in improving presentation skills, or......
Choose a relative – living or late – and write the story of their life! Come prepared to share anecdotes, memories, and details about your loved one, and discuss how to weave these elements together into a powerful biographical sketch that adds meaning to their......
The SUSPENSE prompt was born when teacher Lisa Jones was in the bathtub, reading THE MIST, by Stephen King. Why did such a dumb-seeming premise (a mist lands on a supermarket in Maine, creating terror and death) result in a book so hard to put......
Local songwriter J Morley will share his knowledge of songwriting as a craft. We will get into the historical and contemporary aspects of the song as it pertains to communicating ideas in story form and beyond. We will listen to modern song structure and the......
Where chaos meets craft. Audience members are given a menu of poetry titles as they walk in the door, then they create the show by calling out the order and choosing the content. On the menu will be poems (that will also trigger stories and......
-with Amy Irvine and Craig Childs Learn how to take the emotional and structural chaos of narrative and turn it into an elegant, readable form. This will be a crash course workshop in story writing, fiction or nonfiction, taught by two master of the......
In this 90-minute class with Yuri Chicovsky, explore the surprising role of the imagination in memoir writing, and learn to access and trust the memory like a seasoned memoirist. Discuss the process of translating a memory into written words, and those words into powerful, poignant,......
-with Polly Letovsky Self-publishing has exploded in the past few years allowing all of us to get our stories into the world with no more gatekeeper. But if you were to Google “How to self-publish a book,” 9- million items come up. So which......
-With Matthew Taylor More than ever people are talking about feeling isolated. The simplest way to connect? Story. Your story. Your personal narrative. We all have thousands of stories in us. In this fun and interactive workshop Matthew Taylor, current Denver Moth Grand Slam Champion,......
With Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer The narrative poem is one of literature’s oldest forms, but in this class, we make the practice new. We’ll take some of what lyric poems do best—play with sensory images, descriptive language, and repetition—and apply these tools to storytelling. This......
Take inspiration from a presentation/reading by award-winning author-activist Amy Irvine on “How We Live Now: Art & the Animal Body in Uncertain Times.”...