Free Gen Writing Workshop

Free Gen Writing Workshop!

At Porchlight 1019 E. Washington St.

Sunday, July 20th, 5:30pm- 7pm/ FREE.

Co-hosted by PorchLight Literary and Iowa City Poetry, the Free Generative Writing Workshop provides 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. Prompts have run the gamut of writing from Tarot cards, to finding inspiration in the villanelle; from ekphrasis to open letters of resistance to government officials. 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: Ryan Collins. Ryan Collins is the author of A New American Field Guide & Song Book and several chapbooks. Recently he was a finalist in the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest, the Sixth Finch Chapbook Contest, and the Conduit/Minds on Fire Open Book Prize. His work has appeared in Apartment, The Mixtape Review, Ninth Letter, Oroboro, Past Ten, Sink Review, swamp pink, and many other places. He is the Executive Director of the Midwest Writing Center, and hosts the SPECTRA Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives.