Writing the Small: Micro-Essays as a Path to Poetry withSara Dovre Wudali

“Baby shoes for sale. Never worn.” — anonymous, apocryphally attributed to Ernest Hemingway

In this generative workshop, participants will draw inspiration from micro-flash essay and micro-fiction examples such as 100-Word Love Stories, Tiny Truths, and prose poems to write their own creative nonfiction micros. Together we’ll discuss the work that micro essays do–looking at use of sensory details, figurative language, and narrative–to reveal universal truths to the reader. We will then experiment with form and lineation to lead our micro essays from steady, walking prose into the cha-cha step of poetry.

Class meets in-person, Wednesday, June 25, 10 am – noon

Class size: Minimum 5. Maximum 15.

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Teaching Artist: Sara Dovre Wudali is a writer and editor from Saint Paul, Minnesota. She grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota, where the wind blows through the cottonwoods and box elder bugs rule. Dovre Wudali was a 2023-24 Loft Mentor Series Fellow in poetry. Her poems and essays have been published in literary journals such as under the gum tree, Barrelhouse, Hairstreak Butterfly Review, and Blood Tree Literature. She is the editor of the hybrid anthology chapbook, All You Need is One Avocado. You can learn more and read her work at saradovrewudali.com.