Rekindle Your Craft: A Prompt-Writing Night

Fire up those stagnant creative writing projects and join us for Rekindle Your Craft, a prompt-inspired writing night.

We work from one-word prompts and sometimes images, and then write for a set amount of time. Then, we gather back to see what the prompt did for us. You can share your work or your process if you want, but we won’t make you do it! Bring your dinner or feast on our decadent snacks. We’d love to see you, so come and write with us.

Bring your dinner or feast on our decadent snacks. Just show up. You don’t need to bring anything other than your writing tools.

The Village Works is graciously hosting us. They are by far the most fantastic coworking space in town.

It’s free!

P.S. We try to meet on the 3rd Tuesday of every month!

The answer is yes:

You can bring friends

You can email me with questions at daphne@strassmann.com

24/7 writing prompts and the latest Rekindle news at rekindleyourcraft.com

Writing Marathon at The Village Works

Writing Marathon at The Village Works

Thursday Janurary 24, 7:00-10:30PM

Everybody has writing that they’ve been avoiding. Slay the beast!

Whether you’re plugging away at a book, a business plan, lines of code, your resume, or a letter to your elected officials, writing is easier in good company.

Join us for a night of not checking Instagram—and meet some neighbors while you’re at it. We’ll have The Village Works’s snacks, coffee, and productivity-optimized workspace to help us knock it out.

And if your creative writing is stuck and needs a boost of inspiration, come over early for Rekindle Your Craft at 6:30PM. Daphne Strassmann leads this free, monthly prompt-driven writing workshop. It’s low-key and accessible to writers of all levels. Learn more at rekindleyourcraft.com.

Tickets are free but limited!

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The Village Works is a neighborhood coworking space in Brookline Village with meeting rooms, and events, and flexible memberships for shared workspace.

Rekindle Your Craft

Fire up those stagnant creative writing projects and join us for Rekindle Your Craft, a prompt-inspired writing night.

We work from one-word prompts, and sometimes images, and then go off and write for a set amount of time. Then, we gather back to see what the prompt did for us. You can share your work or your process if you want.

Bring your dinner or feast on our decadent snacks. We’d love to see you, so come to write with us.

Just show up. You don’t need to bring anything other than your writing tools.

The Village Works is graciously hosting us. They are by far the most fantastic coworking space in town.

It’s free!

P.S. We try to meet on the 3rd Tuesday of every month!

The answer is YES:

You can bring friends

You can email me with questions daphne@strassmann.com

24/7 writing prompts and the latest Rekindle news at rekindleyourcraft.com

Image credit: Thesaurus.plus

Emerson College WLP Faculty/Alumni Reading Series

Free and open to the public.

Please RSVP by Nov 14 at this EventBrite link: https://tobinbell.eventbrite.com

Non-Emerson guests must RSVP to be given visitor access.

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Daniel Tobin is the author of nine books of poems, including From Nothing, winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award, The Stone in the Air, his suite of versions from the German of Paul Celan, and the newly published Blood Labors. He is author of the critical studies Awake in America, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, and On Serious Earth, forthcoming in 2019. Tobin is also editor of The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Light in Hand: Selected Early Poems of Lola Ridge, Poet’s Work, Poet’s Play: Essays on the Practice and the Arts (with Pimone Triplett) and To The Many: The Collected Early Poems of Lola Ridge. His poetry has won the “The Discovery/The Nation Award,” The Robert Penn Warren Award, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize, the Stephen Meringoff Award, the Massachusetts Book Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, among other honors.

Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Ornament, winner of the 2016 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Southern Review, 32 Poems, and Poetry International, and in anthologies including A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, Counter-Desecration: An Ecopoetics Glossary, Gracious: Contemporary Poems in the Twenty-first Century South, and Big Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change. Her work as a printer, released under the imprint To Do in the New Year, includes A Pocket Book of Forms, a travel-sized prosody guide, and Forces of Attention, objects designed to help people use screened devices as they wish. The recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in literature, she teaches at UNC Wilmington, where she is editor of Ecotone and Lookout Books. She lives with her family near the Cape Fear River, and calls Appalachian square dances in North Carolina and beyond.

Writing Marathon at The Village Works

Everybody has writing that they’ve been avoiding. Slay the beast!

Whether you’re plugging away at a book, a business plan, lines of code, your resume, or a letter to your elected officials, writing is easier in good company.

Join us for a night of not checking Instagram—and meet some neighbors while you’re at it. We’ll have The Village Works’s snacks, coffee, and productivity-optimized workspace to help us knock it out.

And if your creative writing is stuck and needs a boost of inspiration, come over early for Rekindle Your Craft at 5:30PM. Daphne Strassmann leads this free, monthly prompt-driven writing workshop. It’s low-key and accessible to writers of all levels. Learn more at rekindleyourcraft.com.

Tickets are free but limited!

Crónicas y cuentos: a bilingual writing workshop

This class is free and you do not need to pay or apply for a scholarship. Instead, to join this class fill out this form. DO NOT register using the “Add to Cart” link.

Bilingual (Spanish/English) according to the preferences of the group.

Esta clase es bilingüe en inglés y español tomando en cuenta las preferencias del grupo. Información en español a continuación.

Some of us—we with the busy imaginations, we who have lived through what seemed insurmountable—can’t shake the feeling we should be writing things down. Let’s make stories together. For six weeks we’ll read and write creatively in a bilingual space that welcomes all writers: in English for those who prefer it, español para los que lo prefieren, and Spanglish para todos in between. We’ll read and discuss fiction, essays, and memoir with an emphasis on Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean writers. Weekly writing exercises, language games, and paired discussions will offer us richer ways to use language and storytelling. Finally, we’ll share our stories with each other to get informal feedback.

The workshop is open to students with any level of experience (including none) prepared to be part of a dynamic writing community. Students who have taken Crónicas y cuentos previously and students enrolling for the first time are welcome.

This FREE class takes place at the Boston Public Library’s Egleston Square branch, 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119.

Families welcome. Coffee and snacks provided. Teens are welcome to attend with an older relative. We will provide simple activities to keep young children occupied.

Who Should Register?

Write Down the Street has a special focus on making the creative writing workshop more accessible to those who have been underrepresented in it due to cost, racism, immigration status, language access, lack of access to transportation, and other barriers. We believe that these voices must be spotlighted with the range and fullness they deserve.

These programs are offered tuition-free thanks to the support of generous donors who are committed to our mission of ensuring all voices are heard.

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Algunos de nosotros—los que tenemos imaginaciones hiperactivas, los que hemos sobrevivido lo que antes nos parecía imposible—no podemos evitar la sensación de que debiéramos escribirlo todo. Escribamos juntos nuestras historias. Por seis semanas leeremos y escribiremos ficciones y crónicas en un espacio bilingüe donde todos los escritores son bienvenidos: en español para los que lo prefieren, in English for those who prefer it, y espanglish para todos in between. Leeremos y discutiremos narrativa, ensayos, y crónicas con un énfasis en la obra de escritores latinos, latinoamericanos y caribeños. Cada semana utilizaremos ejercicios de escritura, juegos con el lenguaje, y charlas en pareja para enriquecer nuestro uso de lenguaje y el arte de contar cuentos. Por fin, compartiremos nuestros escritos para obtener comentarios constructivos.

¿Quien se debe matricular?

Autores a la vuelta tiene un enfoque especial en hacer más accesible los talleres de escritura creativa a las personas subrepresentadas debido al costo, racismo, estatus migratorio, barreras de idioma, falta de transporte adecuado, y otras barreras. Creemos que estas voces merecen ser destacadas en toda su plenitud y riqueza de expresión.

Estos programas son ofrecidos sin costo gracias al apoyo generoso de nuestros patrocinadores, quienes creen firmemente en nuestra misión de asegurar que toda voz sea escuchada.

Son bienvenidas las familias y los adolescentes que asisten con un padre u otro pariente. Hay café y meriendas. Proveeremos actividades sencillas para entretener a los niños.

La clase tomará lugar en el sucursal Egleston Square de la Biblioteca Pública de Boston, 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119.

*Photo: Gabriel Sosa*

Memoir Generator Open House & Info Session

Thinking of applying to the Memoir Generator? GrubStreet will host an informal Q&A session with instructor MICHELLE SEATON on Thursday, July 12th, 6:00-7:00 p.m., here at GrubStreet HQ, to answer any questions you have about the Generator, including the workload, the application process, what the program does and doesn’t entail, the schedule, the philosophy behind our approach, and anything else you have on your mind.

Don’t Just Stand There and Read It! Performing Your Writing | ¡No te pares ahí leyendo sin hacer nada! Interpretando tu escritura en vivo

Are you ready to share your writing–live? While spoken word artists write in a tradition that is oral, musical, performative, AND literary, what about performing our stories, essays, and poems that were written primarily for the page? How can we amp up the potential of the literary reading to connect with audiences and bring new dimensions to our work? We’ll talk about how to select material to read aloud, timing, pacing, projection, and eye contact. We’ll also look at examples of poets and writers who are compelling performers and have introduced elements of sound, music, theater, film and visual and performance art into their readings. Bring up to 3 pages of finished work. We especially encourage past Write Down the Street participants to attend this workshop.

This workshop welcomes participants comfortable in English, Spanish, or both.

Families welcome. Coffee and snacks provided. Teens are welcome to attend with an older relative.  We will provide simple activities to keep young children occupied.

This class takes place at the Boston Public Library’s Egleston Square branch, 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119. If you have any difficulty signing up online, please call 617-695-0075.

¡No te pares ahí leyendo sin hacer nada! Interpretando tu escritura en vivo

sabado 23 de junio, 11:30am-1:00pm

Listo para compartir tus escritos–¿en vivo? Mientras los artistas spoken word escriben dentro de una tradición que es a la vez oral, musical, literaria, y performativa, ¿que tal de traer al escenario nuestros cuentos, crónicas, y poemas escritos para la página? ¿Como podemos explotar las potenciales de la lectura literaria para conectar con públicos y añadir nuevas dimensiones a nuestras obras escritas? Nuestra discusión abarcará temas como seleccionar material, el tiempo, el ritmo, la proyección de la voz, y contacto visual. También veremos ejemplos de escritores y poetas que son intérpretes fabulosos y que han introducido a sus lecturas elementos de sonido, música, teatro, cine, performance, y arte visual. Debes traer hasta 3 páginas de tu obra escrita. En particular le animamos a los que han participado anteriormente en Write Down the Street a asistir a este taller.

 

Son bienvenidos en este taller los participantes que se sienten cómodos en inglés o español.

La clase tomará lugar en el sucursal Egleston Square de la Biblioteca Pública de Boston, 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119. Cualquier dificultad para inscribirse en linea, favor de llamar a 617-695-0075.

Writing Marathon at The Village Works

Everybody has some writing that they’ve been avoiding. Slay the beast!

Whether you’re plugging away at a book, a blog, your resume, or a letter to your elected officials, sometimes writing is easier in good company.

Join us for a night of not checking Instagram, and meet some neighbors while you’re at it. We’ll have The Village Works’s snacks, coffee, and productivity-optimized workspace to help us knock it out.

And if your writing is stuck and need a bit of a creative boost, come over early for Rekindle Your Craft at 6:30PM. Led by Daphne, you’ll work from prompts and if you’re up for it, share with the group. Find out more at http://rekindleyourcraft.com

Tickets are free but limited!

Rekindle Your Craft & Writing Marathon

Is your writing stuck? Join DAPHNE STRASSMANN for a productive writing night, working with simple but fertile prompts and spend most of your time writing. If you are up to it, you can share with the group. Open to all writers and every genre. She promises you will leave with good material to mine for new and existing projects.

This event is being graciously hosted by one of the most spectacular coworking spaces in Boston: The Village Works. http://thevillageworks.com

For June 6th’s prompt-writing night she is co-hosting a Writing Marathon with The Village Works.  Marathon starts at  7 pm and ends at 10 pm, so you can move freely between events. Everybody has some writing that they’ve been avoiding. Slay the beast!

She will serve light refreshments but be warned: There are always fresh-baked brownies.  

The best part: It’s free!