Come to our Free generative writing workshop this Sunday, 5/19 at 5:30pm-7pm! All are welcome.

Co-sponsored by PorchLight and Iowa City Poetry, the Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all income levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests. It has been an adventure, and we are continually inspired by the creative concentration of participants, and the powerful beginnings the workshop generates.

This month’s leader: Grace Morse (she/her) is an essayist and New Orleanian earning her MFA in the Nonfiction Writing Program. She is fascinated by hybrid poetics, a faithful practitioner of memoir, and excited about finding new ways to write about the art that moves her. Grace is thankful for the recognition and awards she has received from various institutions, such as the University of Iowa’s Council on Teaching and the Englert Theatre, where she is the 2023-2024 Nonfiction Fellow. Her most recent essay is forthcoming in CRAFT this summer.