“The There There”: Developing Landscape in Your Writing

We’ve moved online! All workshops will be conducted through Zoom, an interactive platform that allows you to participate in exercises and contribute to group conversation in your workshops. The day before your workshop you’ll receive an email with a link to Zoom for your workshop session. 

Member Price: $22
Instructor: July Westhale

Utilizing examples from Richard Hugo’s The Triggering Town, Nikki Finney’s Head Off and Split, and Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina, this workshop will explore place as character or tone-setting in your work. Open to all genres.

July Westhale is an essayist, translator, and the award-winning author of five collections of poetry, including Trailer Trash,Occasionally Accurate Science, The Cavalcade, Quantifiable Data, and Via Negativa. Her most recent work can be found in McSweeney’s, The National Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, CALYX, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Huffington Post, among others. When she’s not teaching, she works as a co-founding editor of PULP Magazine. www.julywesthale.com