The Free Generative Writing Workshop for January

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.

This month's leader:

Margaret MacInnis holds MFA degrees from the University of Iowa (NWP ’09) and Queens University of Charlotte (’04). Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in Brevity, Diagram, Fifty-Word Stories, Fractured Literary, Ghost Parachute, Mutha Magazine, The Rye Whiskey Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, and Tiny Molecules. Longer work appears in…