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Writing From Place

October 24 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
$125.00
Photo of a field of chrysanthemums with inset of a dark haired woman with glasses and text "WRITING FROM PLACE LED BY ANNIE MARHEFKA"

In this generative writing workshop, the neighborhood, street, room, shoreline, or sidewalk becomes a living presence: something with an attitude, a memory, and a voice that shapes what gets written.

Writers will leave with fresh drafts and a new “place lens” for future work.

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The Agenda

Flyer with the following text: this generative workshop, the neighborhood, street, room, shoreline, or sidewalk becomes a living presence: something with an attitude, a memory, and a voice that shapes what gets written. Writers will leave with fresh drafts and a new "place lens" for future work. Good Contrivance Farm, Reisterstown, Maryland Date October 24th Capacity Limited to 12 Price $125 Agenda 15 min - Arrival / Coffee 30 min - Introduction 15 min - Readings from instructors) about place 60 min - Generative writing session 30 min - Break 20 min - Revision discussion 45 min - Writing session 15 min - Break 45 min - Sharing / open mic 30 min - Feedback /notes from instructor Prompts Choose one place you pass often —on purpose or by accident. OR Choose a place you avoid or feel uneasy about. Then choose one of the following: What is that place's "attitude"-protective, suspicious, welcoming, haunted, indifferent, healing? Write about that. Who is someone you imagine was in that same place at another time? A fictional character, a real person, alive or dead, someone you know or a stranger. Write about what their experience of the place might be. Write a letter "from" that place or neighborhood to you.

 

Annie MarhefkaAbout the Instructor

ANNIE MARHEFKA is a writer in Baltimore, Maryland whose work has been featured on The Slowdown Show, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and received the 2024 Eunice Williams Nonfiction Prize. She is the Executive Director at Yellow Arrow Publishing, a Baltimore-based nonprofit empowering women-identifying writers. Annie has a BA in creative writing from Washington College and an MBA, and is an MFA candidate at the University of Baltimore. Her travelogue memoir, Baltimore, for the Writer in Sites series by Scrawl Place, is an ode to longing and a love letter to the city she loves. Learn more about her writing and work at her website.

 

COST: $125 (up to 2 partial or full scholarships available; email theavenueeditors@gmail.com for details and availability).
CAPACITY: Limited to 12

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Details

  • Date: October 24
  • Time:
    10:00 am - 3:00 pm
  • Cost: $125.00
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Venue

  • The Writer’s Retreat at Good Contrivance Farm
  • 2015 Emory Rd
    Reisterstown, MD 21136 United States     + Google Map