Free Gen with Jessie Kraemer

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. The Free Generative Writing Workshops are offered in a hybrid format. Jessie is an essayist and artist. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction and an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa. She is winner of the 2024 Mississippi Review Prize in Nonfiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mississippi…