Breaking the Block: How Playing By the Rules Can Get You Back in the Game

Georgia Writers Association

This two-hour class will help you explore ways to break through writer's block at every point in the writing process.

Writer's block: every writer faces it, no matter where they are in their career. Sometimes, it's the fear that overcomes you at the sight of that blank page; sometimes, it's the blank that happens when you try to perfect your piece. In this generative workshop, we'll explore ways to break through writer's block at every point in the process through language games that can help you play your way into a solution to even the most difficult the puzzles of poetry.About Emma Bolden:Emma Bolden is the author of a memoir, The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull Press, 2022); three full-length collections of poetry -- House Is An Enigma (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2018), medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 2016) and Maleficae (GenPop Books, 2013) – and four chapbooks. The recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the NEA and a Literary Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, her work has appeared in The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Best American Poetry, The Best Small Fictions, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and such journals as the Mississippi Review, The Rumpus, StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, New Madrid, TriQuarterly, the Indiana Review, Shenandoah, and the Greensboro Review.

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