Practicing Poetry Dates: Wednesdays, August 9, 16, 23, 30 Time: 6:30-9:00pm Ages: 18+ Price: $90 M / $100 NM Instructor: JoAnn Balingit This workshop will encourage students to experiment with forms, lists, journal entries, evocative lines, and model poems to generate a poem a week. We’ll get into a writing rhythm and talk about what […]
Practicing Poetry Dates: Wednesdays, January 10, 17, 24, 31 and February 7 Time: 6:30-9:00pm Ages: 18+ Price: $90 M / $100 NM Instructor: JoAnn Balingit This workshop will encourage students to experiment with forms, lists, journal entries, evocative lines, and model poems to generate a poem a week. We’ll get into a writing rhythm and […]
Thursday, March 8 - Saturday, March 10: YesYes Books, Book Fair Saturday, March 10 S117. Literary Public Citizen: The Poet in the Community, Panel, 9:00 am In a round-table discussion based on audience questions and comments, we'll talk about how poets and writers can build community and meet local needs. More information ASIDE: As a child I […]
I am participating in anthology reading at gallery space, The Rectangle, in Orange, NJ. My poem, "In the Stirrups," came out of a postcard prompt Peter Murphy gave on Sunday morning during the Getaway in 2014. More Challenges for the Delusional! Peter Murphy's Prompts and the Writing They Inspired I am so honored to have […]
JoAnn will teach a workshop in revision while in residence at Write On Door County writers center and writing retreat.
Mount San Angelo is the best in the winter. I am going to hole up and organize newly-written parts of my memoir. A great tree Fellow Mid-Atlantic writers, composers and artists, especially fellow Delaware creatives, consider applying to VCCA for a MAAF Creative Fellowship. Deadlines are January 15, May 15 or September 15 for […]
The 17th Annual CityLit Festival takes place on Saturday, March 21, 2020. Baltimore’s award-winning, day-long festival is a literary celebration for readers & writers. It is a free event. This year the festival returns to its original location, the central Enoch Pratt Free Library, a longtime partner. Cynthia Bond reads at CityLit Festival credit: […]
June 15, July 13, August 10th. 7:00pm - 8:30 pm. Hosted by The Woodlawn Library, New Castle County (DE) Libraries. Online writing class. All levels. Register here. Contact me for Zoom Link
Class meets Wednesdays: October 6, October 13, October 20, October 27 from 5:00 to 6:30pm EDT. →REGISTER ← In this four-week poetry class, we'll ask ourselves, "What is a successful harvest?" How have we gathered nourishment for our lives--food and water, material comfort, spiritual wealth, love--and how do we disperse that nourishment? No, no, […]
“Your silence will not protect you.”― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches "Naming the Nameless: A Writing Retreat for Marginalized Voices" is for beginning writers and writers with previous experience. It's an opportunity for people who love to write and create in community. We'll share our stories. We'll give ourselves space and the tenderness […]
Exited to work with Dorothy Allison, who is leading the nonfiction/memoir workshop at upcoming Macondo Writers Workshop virtual edition! And ready to be inspired by the works of Macondista writer-activists. In addition to workshops, there will be three nights of readings including a faculty reading July 29 7:00-8:30 pm CST. All readings free and open […]