EVENTS 2023
Saturday, December 2, 2023: BookTree at 609 Market St. in Kirkland, Wa.
Poets Bethany Reid and Priscilla Long will give a writing workshop at 4:30 followed by a reading, followed by an open mic. Come and write, and share your poetry!
Upcoming Jack Straw Cultural Center Events
Thursday, December 21, 2023, 6:00 p.m.
SoulFood CoffeeHouse, 15748 Redmond Way, Redmond, Washington
Jack Straw Writers: Jim Cantú, Brian Dang, David K. Rae, Carla Shafer, Sumu Tasib, and Julene Tripp Weaver. Followed by an open mic. Come and enjoy this wonderful community.
Upcoming Dancing with the Muse in Old Age Events
April 8, 2024. University of Washington Faculty Auxiliary. Presentation on Thriving While Old.
Writing Courses Offered
Note: For the writer, the journey from wishful to virtuoso is one whose alchemical transformations occur entirely within a process of work. In our classes we work very hard. Are you ready to work and have you cleared enough time to do every assignment to the best of your ability? That is the question to ask yourself as you consider taking one or another of these courses. Oh, yes, we do have fun. But we groan too, and we work.
Winter Seminar 2024
Held on ZOOM. The virus is not over and also, we now welcome writers who can’t get to Seattle without driving (or flying) for six hours.
Six sessions. Cost $400. Held during the day on six Mondays from 1–3 pm. Limited to 12. I send the link shortly before class and am available on Zoom at 12:30 to chat.
In this seminar we will compose, as usual, two new pieces (can be short fiction or nonfiction) and revise a work-in-progress to completion. We will work on sentences, as we do. We now do all sentence work from week to week. The portfolios (three pieces plus the List of Works) will be due postmarked on Monday May 6, 2024.
Form: Titled Theme
Theme: You may choose between “Games” or “Birds / Flight.”
Required books:
The Writer’s Portable Mentor, second edition.
Our extra book: Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds
Reader brought by Priscilla
We will meet:
Class 1: Monday, January 8, 2024, 1–3
Skip January 15 (MLKing Day
Class 2: Monday, January 22, 2024, 1–3
Skip January 29, 2024
Class 3: Monday, February 5, 2024, 1–3
Skip February 12, 2024
Class 4: Monday, February 19, 2024, 1–3
Skip February 26, 2024
Class 5: Monday, March 4, 2024, 1–3
Class 6: Monday, Monday March 11, 2024, 1–3
June Intensive 2024
Held on ZOOM. The virus is not over and also, we now welcome writers who can’t get to Seattle without driving (or flying) for six hours.
Six sessions. Cost $400. Held in the evenings from 7 to 9 pm. Final portfolio is due May 1, 2023. Limited to 12. I send the link shortly before class and am available on Zoom at 6:30 to chat.
In this seminar we will compose, as usual, two new pieces (can be short fiction or nonfiction) and revise a work-in-progress to completion. We will work on sentences, as we do. We now do all sentence work from week to week. The portfolios (three pieces plus the List of Works) will be due postmarked on Friday September 20, 2024.
Form: Titled Theme
Theme: You may choose between “Games” or “Birds / Flight.”
Required books:
The Writer’s Portable Mentor, second edition.
Our extra book: Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds
Reader brought by Priscilla
We will meet: