Our brains think – and we read -- in mental images rather than in abstractions. Images function on two levels at once: as real sensory things in the world, and as paths into a story’s, and your reader’s, emotional core. Led by Kate Moses, this workshop will illuminate how images work and how to use them in your own writing, whatever your genre. Limited enrollment

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How do novice creators learn the skills they need to master their craft and navigate the business? They have to show up. Led by author Megan E. Freeman, this workshop will demonstrate how the practice of showing up can advance the professional trajectory of any ambitious creator. Participants will engage in real-time SMART goal-setting and action-planning, and will leave with actionable strategies that can be employed immediately. Limited enrollment

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We know from the poets that memory is often attached to singular artifacts, emblems, or events imbued with significant feeling and meaning and self-knowledge. How can we prompt these recollections, and compose the song lines that cohere around them? Led by Penobscot Press columnist Todd R. Nelson, participants will consider the inspiring sounds, objects, and places we’ve stored away, the texts and techniques, the words and phrases, for making them vivid and enduring. Limited enrollment

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What happens when we allow the natural world to tell its own story, the place itself to speak? Led by Samaa Abdurraqib and Katherine Hagopian Berry, this workshop encourages participants to explore writing with (not just about) nature.  Participants will be led through a series of interactive prompts that allow them to explore different natural guises. Limited enrollment

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It is difficult to talk about grief, and it can even be more difficult to write through grief. Participants, led by poet Maya Williams, will examine how grief is related to mental health, and how poems might be written and revised during hard times. Limited enrollment

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