Date: Thursdays, 9/12, 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17
Format: Elk Rapids Library and Online via Zoom
Time: Class on 9/12 and 10/17 are in person from 5-7PM; remaining classes are held via Zoom from 5:30-7:30 PM
Class Size: 10-12
Grade Level: Middle School; Grades 5-8
Calling all would be alchemists, mad scientists, and wizards! When we begin to combine words, a limitless number of creations become possible and there is an endless supply of language already out in the world, ready to be collected. We will treat this workshop as a laboratory for mixing up new, strange, delightful, frightening, and wonderful creations from a wide variety of unlikely sources. Each week, students will be assigned some “raw materials” (drawn from history, literature, nature, science, pop culture, fine arts, and more) to bring to the next class for experimentation. We will process, refine, assemble, deconstruct, and reassemble these materials into stories, poems, essays, and whatever else our creative brains decide to make. The goal is to make new writing, learn revision skills, and hone our ability to listen carefully to the world of language around us.
All enrolled students will have the opportunity to publish work in the 2024 issue of the National Writers Series’ Literary Journal, published each spring!
This is a hybrid class: the first (Sept 12) and last (Oct 17) meeting will be in person at the Elk Rapids Library from 5-7 PM; the remaining classes will be help on Zoom from 5:30-7:30 PM
About: David Hornibrook
David Hornibrook is the author of Night Manual (Wayne State University Press, 2019), winner of the Moveen Prize in Poetry. His work was also the receipient of a Pushcart Prize and has been published in a variety of places including The Windsor Review, Juked, Third Coast, and Thrush Poetry Journal. David holds an MFA from the Helen Zell Writer’s Program and lives in Petoskey, Michigan.
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