Check out the lineup for Black Lawrence Press virtual events!
GENERATIVE GROUP WRITING SESSION WITH CAROL GUESS
Sunday, April 27 @ 4 PM ET
Join us for a generative group writing session! Come away with new material inspired by writing prompts led by Black Lawrence Press author Carol Guess. Participants will be given a series of prompts, each followed by time to write silently while in community with other writers. All participants will receive:
- a PDF of additional prompts for future writing
- a surprise chapbook, mailed to your address
WRITING SHORT STORIES FROM SETTING: FOUR WEEKS, FOUR STORY STARTS
June 8, 15, 22, 29 @ 5 PM ET
Are you interested in writing short stories that explore setting in new ways? Are you curious about how your creative process might change when “place” is put at the forefront of your brainstorming? Join Black Lawrence Press author and NEA Fellow Gwendolyn Paradice for a four-week, generative workshop meant to jump-start your fiction writing. Each Sunday, we’ll look at short stories and craft essays from writers like Tananarive Due, Benjamin Percy, Anya Deniro, Rebecca Roanhorse, T.C. Tolbert, Claire Vaye Watkins, and others. We’ll discuss their work to help us consider new and exciting ways to use setting, we’ll dedicate time to start drafting our short stories—based on prompts inspired by the authors we read—sharing our new ideas with each other as we close workshop. By the end of our four weeks, you’ll have a list of methods and strategies for employing setting in your writing, numerous writing prompts for generating additional stories, a collection of texts to use as inspiration and models. Most importantly, though, you’ll have the starts of four new short stories to keep you writing!