Summer Intensive Creative Workshop

**Please note: This program will take place online, due to university, city and state physical distancing guidelines.**

Calling all creative composers! The Summer Intensive Creative Workshop is designed for those of you with writing or other creative narrative projects in progress. Whether you're a poet, a fiction and essay writer, or a graphic and pictorial composer, you are encouraged to sign up!

We all know the creative process can sometimes feel like a lonely and frustrating endeavor, even more so now that physical distancing restrictions are in place. This workshop will be a place where you will share your work, give each other thoughtful feedback, find inspiration and connect with a supportive community - even if that community takes place online.

Instructor: Katherine Hubbard, Teaching Lecturer in Writing, Jefferson East Falls

This workshop is open to new students, as well as to students who have previously completed Introduction to Creative Writing with instructor Kath Hubbard. The workshop is also open to Jefferson staff and faculty.

Schedule:

Class Format: This seminar meets every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday between May 26 and June 11 from 6-7:30 p.m.

All creative writers are encouraged to sign up – poets, fiction and essay writers, graphic or pictorial composers – the only requirement is that you have work far enough along that it can be shared with the group and discussed. Here is how it will work:

• Five days before the workshop begins, you will submit your piece to a google drive folder accessible by the whole group. If your project is long, please limit it to about 15 pages.

• Each author will be assigned two evenings when their work will be discussed.

• Workshop members will read the submitted work ahead of the assigned night and come to class ready to discuss the piece in detail. No more than three pieces will be discussed per evening, and each discussion will last forty-five minutes, with a five minute break between each discussion.

• You may use your second assigned evening to resubmit a revised version of your first piece, or to submit an entirely different piece you’d like us all to consider.

• The instructor will offer generative prompts for participants based upon the work submitted. She will also address issues such as publishing strategies, finding time to create, feeling stuck or blocked, how to identify flat language and scenes as well as revision techniques that have helped other authors in the past.

The workshop is limited to twelve participants on a first come first serve basis. If you aren’t able to get a spot, you will be put on a waitlist. Summer is often a time of flux, and it is possible a space will open up even after the workshop has begun. Waitlisted additions will be assigned one of the later workshop dates.

Please contact Kath Hubbard (Katherine.hubbard@jefferson.edu) or Megan Voeller (Megan.voeller@jefferson.edu) with any questions.