This interactive workshop will focus on supporting adult participants who aim to either begin a fiction story or advance/enhance works in progress. Participants will be asked to bring their nascent ideas or drafts of a story or scene that they would like to improve or build out. During the first hour, participants will share their…

Food both shapes and reflects our personal, cultural, and social identity. Food connects us to land and the natural world, to animals, farmers, workers, and community. Our food choices say a lot about who we are. To participatte in this session, please bring a favorite recipe or description of a meal or food item that…

Join us for this generative workshop where we will turn to current affairds as a jumping off point for making poems. Whether we’re looking at breaking headlines or human-interest items buried deeper in media, opportunities abound for connection. Every day, the world churns and offers up its stories–how do we synthesize the overwhelming nature of…

In this entertaining fiction-writing workshop, you’ll create characters and a plot based on found grocery lists. Who is buying ‘oatmeal, Drano, and migraine medicine’ and why? Through such questions, you’ll create a protagonist, diagram a plot, and write a scene. You’ll also discuss places to publish short stories and how to get an agent for…

Summer. Fall. Winter. Spring. Each season tells their own story. Each of us has experienced these seasons as a specific part of our lives. We have experienced the wonder of nature in those seasons throughout our lives. Come join us for three days of remembering the seasons, writing about them, and living them once again…

Delve into both unique and ordinary family memories using stories we’ve been told, objects and artifacts, letters, diaries, world history, and more to discover and create compelling children’s stories that have a universal appeal. Deborah will share examples of the research she has done on her own family’s history and the picture book manuscript that…

Summer. Fall. Winter. Spring. Each season tells their own story. Each of us has experienced these seasons as a specific part of our lives. We have experienced the wonder of nature in those seasons throughout our lives. Come join us for three days of remembering the seasons, writing about them, and living them once again…

Relax, unwind, and set your creative spirit free! This interactive workshop is all about unleashing your inner creative and taking the concept of play to heart. Pulling from the work of creative innovators like Lynda Barry and Austin Kleon, Stacy will lead participants through a series of fun exercises and activities, grounded in play and…

Summer. Fall. Winter. Spring. Each season tells their own story. Each of us has experienced these seasons as a specific part of our lives. We have experienced the wonder of nature in those seasons throughout our lives. Come join us for three days of remembering the seasons, writing about them, and living them once again…