On Memory and Metaphor: Bringing the Past to Life
Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author of eight works of nonfiction and poetry. Her book Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite...
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Writing Craft Workshop
Each month we’ll dive into the essential elements of great storytelling. Whether fiction or essay, we will explore ways to increase narrative power through a particular aspect...
read moreCRAFT TALKS Event: Filling the Gaps: Speculation and Invention in Creative Nonfiction w/Tamara Dean
$15 (Early bird) Every true story contains gaps. By embracing the unknown, we can transform our material and our writing experience.
Explore the power of what...
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The Engine of Narratives: Openings, Metaphors, and Characters
Join author Tommy Dean for a 2-hour generative writing session focused on The Engine of Narratives: Openings, Metaphors, and Characters. Make dreading the blank page a...
read moreVeteran’s Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest, positive, and constructive peer-to-peer...
read moreThe Big Texas Author Talk featuring Mag Gabbert
This session will feature Poet & Essayist Mag Gabbert and her poetry collection, SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS. This discussion will be moderated by poet Séamus...
read morePrompt Writing Workshop
Start off the year right! Prompt is an 8-week series of connected workshops full of freewriting, listening, and strengths-based feedback. With accountability...
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Poetry Chat: Shakespeare & Co
Chat with Oceanside Library's Poet In Residence Christina M Rau.
We will read and discuss poetry by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
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read moreOblivescence Virtual Book Launch
Red Sweater Press presents Kelly R. Samuels for the virtual launch of her latest book of poetry, Oblivescence. Join us on YouTube live on Thursday, February 22...
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Queering the Personal/Political Line: The Documentary Epistolary, a Poetics of Protest and Identity with Subhaga Crystal Bacon (via Zoom)
Emily Dickinson famously wrote her “letter to the world that never wrote” to her. In her article, “Queering the Epistolary: On the Radical Potential of Epistolary Poetry,”...
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