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Write Around Portland is offering a special workshop 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.
Prompt is your chance to write in community with others following the Write Around model while also providing support to writers who might not otherwise have access to writing and community. 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 before registering online.
We are holding Prompt workshops this summer and fall:
Summer Session: Eight Tuesdays, 6:15 - 8:45pm
June 23rd - August 11th
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside
Workshop Facilitator: Sara Guest (see bio below)
Fall Session: Eight Mondays, 6:15 - 8:45pm
October 19th - December 7th
Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside
Workshop Facilitator: Margaret Malone (see bio below)
Cost: $285
Payment plans available.
Cost includes free parking, snacks
and access to the “Bowels of Powells”
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 workshop will cap off with a community broadside.
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.
Prompt facilitators:
Summer Facilitator Sara Guest has a BA in creative writing and an MA in literature. She is editor of VoiceCatcher3, an anthology of Portland women’s writing, and she workshopped fiction at the 2008 Tin House Writers Workshop. Sara is a former speech writer, writing instructor and has worked professionally as an editor for 15 years. She has facilitated numerous Write Around Portland workshops as a volunteer and in her current role on our staff as Program Coordinator.
Fall Facilitator Margaret Malone's writing has appeared in The Missouri Review, Swink, latimes.com, The 2008 Wordstock Ten and elsewhere. She has been a volunteer and workshop facilitator with Write Around Portland since 2006 and is currently at work on a collection of stories and a memoir.
Important note: These workshops fill quickly. Call our office to ensure there is space in the workshop- 503.796.9224.
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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.
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 exhilerated after each workshop. I'm inspired!