Join Creative Writing Director of IAIA Deborah Taffa (author of the forthcoming Whiskey Tender) for a creative writing workshop called Using Elements of Poetry to Improve Your Prose. This workshop is being held in connection with IAIA’s Fall reading (which will follow the workshop and feature Taffa, Carla Crujido, and Stacie Shannon Denetsosie) and is open to all indigenous writers and any anti-racist allies who wish to attend. Please register below by Nov 8. The form will be removed when all slots are filled!

Workshop Description: In this workshop, we will discuss how prose narratives can benefit from poetic techniques, how expanding the use of poetic principles—from metaphor to repetition, space, juxtaposition, accrual, lists, and rhyme—can deepen the experience of writing and reading creative nonfiction. What is the lyric essay? How can we use a “volta” to surprise ourselves and our readers? This generative class will be a discussion of craft at the line level. We will do writing exercises and create several “after” drafts for you to share with the class and develop when our time together is done.