It’s easy to get stuck thinking about what we want to write, or overwhelmed with the process of writing a book length memoir. Let’s use this time together to jump in and write a scene. Elizabeth will lead you on a guided writing process to explore and write a moment in time. You will emerge with a draft of an embodied vivid scene.
Join us for a lively panel discussion with three acclaimed authors, whose lives and work focus on our food & culinary culture and history. FREE
Our beloved annual Poetry Crawl, from the comfort of your own home! Join us for readings from four outstanding poets.
A class in flash and micro-fiction. Learn to get in and get out, to go short, cut, compress, to build an interesting frame and give your reader clues to fill in a satisfying story. Grab your paper, pen or computer and find out how constraints can make your writing soar!
For fiction writers with readers of all ages, this workshop will focus on crafting a strong beginning (how to get yourself started and how to hook a reader, both), strategies for plotting and pantsing, and how to actually write the darn thing--including prewriting time spent building sturdy scaffolding that will help you get through a first draft.
Personas are Us: Who do you think you’re talking to? This poetry workshop with Tim Seibles will expand the emotional range and subject matter of our poems by stepping into a variety of characters, employing their perspectives—their voices—as our own.
Join us for a conversation with National Book Award winner Susan Choi about her work, most recently the novel Trust Exercise. FREE
An author talk about Keyes' new book, Isolation Artist: Scandal, Deception, and the Last Days of Robert Indiana.
When reclusive millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here, for the first time, are all the pieces to the bizarre true story of the artist’s final days. FREE
Close Apart is a series of collaborative multimedia pieces by poet Beatrix Gates and printmaker Tim Seabrook, with help from painter Leslie Cummins. In order to bring these pieces and the process of their creation to life for the Word Festival virtually, a short film on the subject was commissioned from filmmaker Matt Shaw, with support from the Anahata Foundation. FREE
