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The Work Poetry Workshop Zoom Edition with Christopher Luna

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

NOTE: Due to the restrictions to keep us safe from the Coronavirus, The Work will continue as a remote workshop via Zoom. Please email Christopher Luna at christopherjluna@gmail.com by midnight the night before each workshop to RSVP if you would like to participate. Also, please share this event with others who might be interested. The cost for the workshop is a suggested donation of $20 to Christopher Luna’s PayPal account. Suggested means that we would like for you to join us regardless of whether or not you can afford it right now. SATURDAY AFTERNOON EDITION Join us on Saturday, July 11 for The Work, a poetry writing workshop led by Christopher Luna. The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as…

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Free – $20

Writing for Survival Webinar with Terese Marie Mailhot

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

WHAT: A two-hour online webinar AND a 4-week online workshop WITH: Terese Marie Mailhot WHEN: WEBINAR: Saturday, July 11th 1PM-3PM PST WHERE: ZOOM! (But of course.) Meeting registration and access details will be provided in advance. HOW MUCH: WEBINAR—$100. One hundred total capacity. Payment plans are available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com SCHOLARSHIPS: Fifteen full scholarships are available for BIPOC writers. Click here to apply. WEBINAR—July 11th—SEATS AVAILABLE! Our stories can be medicine for ourselves and others. When we retrieve stories people wish we would forget, we can re-shape the narratives of our lives and make art of it, too. Terese will be discussing ways you can piece together a fragmented life, and ways you can utilize metaphor and draw out ideas to connect points…

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$100

Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

4-Week Online Workshop starting July 12th, 2020 “What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James “How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn On han: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined.” –Suh Nam-dong How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to…

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$350

SUMMER Online: Micro Memoir Workshop II w Matthew Dickman | July 12 – Aug 9 FULL — WAIT LIST ONLY

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The smallest moment can profoundly change your life, a smell briefly caught on a walk can send you back in time, objects hold whole multi-histories and as the writer Jay Ponteri says "memories nest inside other memories". In this 5 week class we will be exploring memory and the tools of the memoir genre to write our own "Micro-Memoirs". These will be 1-5 page prose pieces. We will also be reading a lot of outside examples of this and writing together in class. This class is open to all writers, whether you identify as a poet, fiction, or creative non-fiction writer. Whoever you are let's all explore together! | Maximum: 12 writers NOTE: Writers may take this class without having previously taken Micro Memoir I. Register for this…

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$215 – $242

Truth & Dare: Experiments in Art & Writing with Laura Moulton

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Meets Mon/Weds 11am-12:30pm | July 13, July 15, July 20, July 22, July 27, July 29 In this course, we’ll explore work by contemporary artists and writers and generate our own projects both on the page and in the world. Each week you’ll choose one truth and one dare and work toward a final project that will be a culmination in the medium of your choice. The only rule: follow what you are most curious about. Our workshop will include fun writing prompts, research and lively reports-from-the-field, and group-think collaborations. “Homework” may include adventures like graffiti harvesting, doing anonymous good, writing a short story about a nightclub singer in love with an armadillo, or sending something via postal mail. Laura Moulton is a writer and…

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Free

SUMMER Online: Poets Studio Summer Sessions | July 13 – Aug 31

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Apps due July 8 One of the things I feel Poets Studio participants, regardless of experience and skill, can benefit from, is an extended concentration on only a few pieces over a couple months. That’s my goal for the Summer Sessions, which would progress as follows: Sessions 1-3: Making. We’ll start from scratch on a few poems, developing strategies of imagination, research, trial and error, and writing several “test” drafts over several weeks. Sessions 4-6: Noticing. Here we’ll begin to be attentive to what might be possible with various drafts of poems, in the writing process — noticing what they are doing and not doing, what they are implying and avoiding, and what they are potentially able to become, and what they can’t ever become…

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$505 – $535

The Work Poetry Workshop on Zoom with Christopher Luna

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

NOTE: Due to the restrictions to keep us safe from the Coronavirus, The Work will continue as a remote workshop via Zoom. Please email Christopher Luna at christopherjluna@gmail.com by midnight the night before each workshop to RSVP if you would like to participate. Also, please share this event with others who might be interested. The cost for the workshop is a suggested donation of $20 to Christopher Luna’s PayPal account. Suggested means that we would like for you to join us regardless of whether or not you can afford it right now. MONDAY NIGHT EDITION Join us on Monday, July 13 for The Work. The Work is a drop-in poetry writing workshop for beginners as well as more experienced writers. Poetry encourages empathy and compassion,…

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Free – $20

WORKSHOP: Time Management for the Writer

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Do you find it difficult to find time for your writing? Or maybe can’t find time for your life? Come learn with seasoned entrepreneur, Janelle Youngstrom, on how to set goals, manage your priorities, organize your time, and shift your thinking about managing life and your writing.

Free

VIRTUAL IPRC: Toxic Productivity and the Creative Cycle

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

In this workshop hosted by Marina Martinez-Bateman, participants will deconstruct the toxic habit many of us have of associating our worth with our ability to produce. Especially in this charged and stressful time, we feel external pressure to make work that will help others contextualize a situation we ourselves may not yet have a handle on. Add to that a constant social media feed of friends and colleagues to unfairly compare ourselves to, and this is a recipe for despair. Workshop attendees will talk about where toxic productivity comes from, how to identify it, and introduce some and exercises that will help you develop other coping strategies. Learn more about Marina at marinaforhire.com *15 spots available* Register Here. Participants will be emailed the Zoom meeting link…

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$5 – $15

Queer Bodies/Queer Forms: Leaving Behind the Retrograde w/ Cooper Lee Bombardier

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

A 6-week online workshop STARTS: July 19th, 2020 COST: $350 (scholarships available - preference to queer/trans POC writers - click here to apply) Cooper Lee Bombardier says: “To me, queer is expansive, queer is hybrid, queer is taking what works and leaves behind the retrograde.” Yes, for many queer is also an identity but you don’t have to identify as queer to benefit from a look at queer forms, or attempting to queer your own work. We’ll look at work that might be considered queer in content as well as form, and will embark on multiple generative writing “experiments” where we try on the forms and constraints studied, enter into conversation with them, become inspired by them, apply them to our own creative voices, and invent our own…

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$350
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