Event Title: Creative Writing Retreat

Date: Sunday, January 12

Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm Pacific time

Location: In-Person at Dominican. Remote access also available via live Zoom broadcast. You may select your ticket type at registration

This event is co-sponsored with the California Writers Club. It is free and open to the public. You may select a free in-person or remote access ticket at registration.

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Iris Jamahl Dunkle will discuss the art of building a platform to grow your audience as an author including everything from developing a weekly Substack, fostering an online presence through social media platforms, scheduling strategic readings and developing community through literary citizenry work to connect with readers, editors, and the literary world.

Iris Jamahl Dunkle is an Emerita Poet Laureate of Sonoma County and a faculty member at UC Davis and she teaches in the Dominican University Low-Res MFA program. She has authored two biographies: Charmian Kittredge London: Trailblazer, Author, Adventurer (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) and Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (University of California Press, 2024). Her fourth poetry collection, West : Fire : Archive, was recently published by The Center for Literary Publishing. Dunkle writes a weekly blog called Finding Lost Voices, which revives the voices of women who have been forgotten or misremembered and serves as the Poetry and Translation Director at the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. She’s on the board of the National Book Critics Circle where she is the Co-VP of Awards.

Registration Details

Registration is required. Event details will be emailed to all registrants. This event is free and open to the public as a service to our community. The event is hosted by the MFA in Creative Writing program at Dominican University. Dominican University of California is a nonprofit institution. To make a donation to the MFA Scholarship Fund visit our site here.

Contact mfa@dominican.edu with any questions.

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