The Free Generative Writing Workshop for September

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:

Sarah Minor is an essayist and interdisciplinary artist and the author of Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit, winner of the 2021 Noemi Press Prize in Prose, Bright Archive (Rescue Press 2020), winner of the Big Other Nonfiction Book Award, and The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated (Essay Press 2016). She’s the recipient of the Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, and an Individual Research Grant to Iceland from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Her essays have been collected in places like Best American Experimental Writing, Advanced Creative Nonfiction, and A Harp in the Stars. She currently teaches in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and serves as the Video Essay and Cinepoetry Editor at TriQuarterly Review.

​ To attend online or find out more about the Free Generative Workshops visit https://www.freegenerative.org