Find Your Storyteller’s Voice with Telling Trails, led by Iris Jackson

This special pair of workshops is designed to engage with writers and creators searching for their storytelling voice. Instructor Iris Jackson will share experiences from her Telling Trails photos, poems, and writings, providing time for comments and conversation, with the goal of students creating and sharing their own narratives. Utilizing Telling Trails as a vehicle, participants will have opportunity to listen, share, write, and join in conversations about their creative journeys. After some shorter writing exercises, storytellers will have the opportunity to focus on their chosen themes to develop a larger more complete piece to be shared in the second session—with additional time for presentations, conversations, and feedback. Workshop attendees will also have the opportunity for their works to be included in upcoming blogs on the Telling Trails website, along with possible inclusion in the Telling Trails Tour Book Series.

Thursdays, June 16 and July 7, 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Zoom. (Registration fee includes both sessions). Limited to 15 participants.

About our instructor

As a longtime educator in the public schools, delivering college seminars and continuing education courses, Iris Jackson has worked with students of many ages. Continually creating as a freelance musician, theater performer, and art curator, Jackson has turned these experiences toward her Telling Trails Book Series, and she is looking for collaborators to expand the community of storytellers. She has also participated in the Savannah Book Festival, Safe Harbors of the Hudson, and numerous indie bookstore events, as well as working with schools, libraries, museums, and sports teams. Learn more about Telling Trails (and order copies of the book) at www.tellingtrails.org.