@ The
Bucktown Center for the Arts in downtown
Davenport
**If you are planning to enter the Iron Pen
Contest you should take this workshop on
Writing from a Prompt taught by a
multi-genre, multi-time winner of the
contest.
About the
Workshop
Focusing on
how to use the words of prompts to inspire
creativity, this workshop will help authors
engage with language in ways that allow
movement beyond what is initially perceived
as the limitations of the prompt. By pushing
the boundaries of the meanings and
structures of words, phrases, and sentences,
writers can turn simple prompts into rich
works of art. Techniques learned will help
unblock creativity, allowing authors to play
with language in ways that feed rather than
stifle the imagination.
Words give
us the ability to move—Lidia
Yuknavitch
Jane L. Carman
Jane L. Carman
enjoys unruly
writing that
pushes against
genre and
expectations.
She is a Ph.D.
candidate at
Illinois State
University where
she is a former
Sutherland
Fellow and
currently
teaches
innovative
writing,
literature,
genre studies,
and gender in
the humanities.
Her most recent
work can be
found in
Devil’s Lake,
Santa Clara
Review,
Mixed Fruit,
JAC,
eilmae,
Pequin, and
is forthcoming
in The Dirty
Fabulous
(Jaded Ibis
Press). She is
the founder of
Festival of
Language—an
array of artists
in motion—an
annual event
that coincides
with The
Association of
Writers and
Writing
Program’s annual
conference.
Registration
the fee to attend this
event is:
$10 - for 2011 Iron Pen
Contest Participants
$20 - for Members of
MWC
$25 - for Non-Members
**You can also
register by phone with a credit card by calling the office at 563-324-1410,
