Join us for inspiration, craft insight, and community!

Sunday, Oct 20th, 5;30-7pm at Porchlight! 1019 E. Washington.

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.

Glen Waters (He/him) is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He was born in Dallas, Texas. Glen is a Napa Valley Writers Conference John Leggit scholarship recipient, Kansas University Black Book Interactive Project Intro to Digital Humanities Fellow, and adjunct professor at the University of Iowa teaching creative writing and African American studies. Glen’s work is forthcoming in Poetry South and can be found in Howard University’s The Amistad and Stephen F. Austin’s Journal of Multicultural Affairs. Currently, he serves as a council member of Iowa City Poetry and is the editor of Black Poetry Review.