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Free Gen Writing Workshop
May 18, 2025 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Free Gen Writing Workshop
May 18, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
At Porchlight:
Iowa City, 1019 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240
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.
Devanshi Khetarpal is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was the Truman Capote and Sonny Mehta Fellow in fiction. She is currently an MFA Candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa, and an Associate Poetry Editor for The Bombay Literary Magazine. Devanshi holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Comparative Literature from New York University. She is a recipient of the James Michener-Copernicus Society Award from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Prufer Poetry Prize, and her work was longlisted for the 2022 Toto Award for Creative Writing in English. She has received support from the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, Yale Writers’ Workshop, Juniper Writing Institute at UMass Amherst, NYU and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades, The Masters Review, Public Books, and Poetry at Sangam, among others. Her poetry collection, Small Talk, was published by Writers Workshop India in 2019. Devanshi is from Bhopal, India. Website: www.devanshikhetarpal.co
