Generative 6 week course focused on writing as a way of looking and being in the world.
Community Cohosts: Emily Strasser, Mair Allen
Dates: Tuesday evenings, 6-8pm—September 6, 13, 20, 27, Oct 4, 11 (classes will be offered on Zoom, with the option to meet occassionaly in-person outdoors if all participants agree).
More details:
Mair Allen and Emily Strasser offer a 6-week generative writing class for anyone looking to explore, heal, or reignite their creativity. Together, we will spend time completing generative prompts designed to help us play, take risks, find our subject matter, and access our innate creativity. We’ll build a nurturing and accountable community to support each other to reach personal and collective writing goals, work through fear and writer’s block, and establish sustainable writing habits. Readings and take-home prompts will be offered to those looking for further structure. Allen and Strasser have studied with the Cultural Wellness Center’s Moving From Race to Culture Cohort and aspire to use the cultivation of attention and mindfulness to help build their framework for the course. They’re excited to build community and use the proceeds from the class to support the Cultural Wellness Center’s Dreamland on 38th Capital Campaign.
Instructor Bios:
Emily Strasser writes primarily creative nonfiction spanning personal essay to lyric to researched forms. Her essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Guernica, Colorado Review, The Bitter Southerner, and others, and her first book is forthcoming from University Press of Kentucky. She earned her MFA from the University of Minnesota and was a 2019 McKnight Fellow in writing. She teaches at the Loft Literary Center, University of Minnesota, Hamline University, and others.
Mair Allen is a poet, essayist, and editor. Their work can be found in Hooligan Magazine, Oroboro, Kithe, and other places around the internet. They won the 2020 Mikrokosmos poetry prize and placed second in the 2021 Penrose Prize for LGBTQ writers. They are an MFA candidate at Antioch University, a program with a social justice based curriculum—and work as a storyteller for the institution, connecting community through narrative.
$100-300 Suggested
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Questions? Email communityinvestmentcouncil@gmail.com
Cash for Culture goal: $2000