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Poetry + Prose: Holiday Edition (Adults and Youth 15+ with a Registered Adult)
Join us for a dynamic assortment of creative writing exercises with a holiday flair. Using a variety of seasonal prompts and objects, we’ll engage in multi-sensory writing exercises to explore the realm of memory and imagination, discovering new possibilities for generating images with the written word. Class time will focus on shared readings and active writing time, in order to generate new drafts in the style and genre of the writer’s choosing, whether that’s poetry or prose. This workshop is a space for launching new ideas. Students who wish to complete a first draft should expect to continue writing beyond the time frame of the workshop.
About the Instructor
Lauren Miner
Lauren Miner is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, where she earned an MFA in creative writing (concentrating in poetry) and an MA in English (writing her thesis about descriptions of photographs in the poems of Larry Levis). She's led creative-writing workshops at VCU, the UVa Young Writers' Workshop, and elsewhere. Her creative interests include poetry, nonfiction, photography (both analog and digital), and comics. She currently serves as an assistant poetry editor at Four Way Review, and she is the Artist-in-Residence for the James River Park System.
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