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Write Around Portland offers a unique generative workshop called Prompt designed for writers and aspiring writers in the greater Portland area who want to participate in a Write Around workshop and support the communities we traditionally serve who might not otherwise have access to writing and community.
Based on the acclaimed Write Around Portland model, this dynamic workshop incorporates many of our favorite writing exercises designed to inspire the writing life, including freewriting; work with writing elements; strength-building feedback and early-draft revision. The Prompt workshop caps off with a community broadside.
We are holding our next Prompt workshop starting in April:
Next session: Ten Tuesdays
April 20 - June 22, 2010*
6:30-8:30pm
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside
Workshop Facilitator: Paige Pancratz (bio below)
Cost: $285
Payment plans available.
Cost includes free parking, snacks
and access to the “Bowels of Powells”
All proceeds go toward funding Write Around Portland programs, including workshops for people affected by HIV/AIDS, veterans living with PTSD, teen parents, those with physical or mental disabilities, people living in low income housing and others without access because of income, isolation or other barriers.
* We will hold two more Prompt workshops this year, starting Wednesday, July 14 and Thursday, October 7. Call for more info - 503.796.9224.
Registration is limited to 12 adults per workshop. IMPORTANT NOTE: Spaces are filling quickly! Please call ahead (503.796.9224) to confirm there is space, to register and to discuss payment plan options.
Click here for information about our registration, payment options and refund policies.
Workshop facilitator Paige Pancratz is a writer and professional book buyer. She began her writing career as a staff writer for a weekly newspaper in Colorado and gradually settled back into her study of writing fiction and poetry. She's worked in the independent bookshop world for over a decade and has extensive experience as a professional writing mentor. Paige has been volunteering with Write Around Portland since 2008 and has facilitated writing workshops for adults with mental disabilities. She is currently at work on a chapbook of poetry and a memoir in verse.
Click here to register for Prompt.
What Prompt participants are saying about their experience:
Whether you’ve been writing for eons or have never shared your writing within a group, this experience is not to be missed.
Prompt opened my writing in different ways. It pushed me past an extended period of writers' block into a new period of creativity.
Prompt was fun and inspirational and a great place to meet other people who share the same passion.
If you're in a rut, it will get you out. If you're lacking confidence in your writing, it will build you up. And if you don't think you have a unique voice, it will prove you wrong!
I loved it! Prompt was everything I'd hoped for and more than I exptected. Everyone should take it!
Prompt was like a door for me - it opened up my creative side again after a long time. I loved the non-pressure vibe.
I loved the inclusive, community-building part of the workshop experience.
This was an incredible experience. It's hard to express how much this has really impacted me and made me feel so much more confident about my writing.
The facilitator was fabulous!
The sense of community was strong. It was a wonderfully diverse group of people that likely would not have otherwise met.
It was great! Prompt helped me gain confidence and excitement about my writing.
It's well worth the time, effort and money. You'll surprise yourself!
This is a great way to stretch yourself, deepen your experience of who you are as a person and a writer.
I really enjoyed coming together with people from all walks of life and different age groups. It reminded me of what we share as humans - joys and sorrows.
The facilitator was well-prepared, inclusive, supportive and an excellent writer.
It was an amazing experience! I've always wanted to do something like this but was afraid to try until now.
I felt exhilarated after each workshop. I'm inspired!