Supporting writers and building community
The Free Gen: Iowa City's Original Generative Writing Workshop
Sun, Jul 19
|1019 E Washington St
Write alongside some of Iowa's most creative teachers and inspiring emerging writers
Time & Location
Jul 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
1019 E Washington St, 1019 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, USA
Guests
About the event
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.
Leslie Pyo received a Fulbright for Creative Writing in Korea in 2023-24. She is currently completing that project, a surreal, bilingual (Korean and English) picture book about the emotional dimensions of heritage language loss and reacquisition. See her visual art and connect…