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Teachers-as-Writers: Finding Inspiration in the Everyday 2022-406/Online

Course #2022-406
Tuesdays Starting September 20 6:30 pm–8:30 pm running 6 weeks
Cost: $45 Instructor: brittny ray crowell
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This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House.

Writing through the Confetti Time

This workshop is tuition-free and only open for K-12 educators.

Both writing and teaching require time, energy, and attention. The work of caregiving has often produced what writer Melissa Stephenson calls “confetti time” – fractured moments, rather than the long stretches we sometimes think are necessary for deep creative work. Similarly, K-12 educators, with increased demands on their time, often face the same challenges. But do writing and teaching have to be in competition, or are there ways that the two can inspire and feed one another?

In this generative open genre workshop, participants will be introduced to several strategies that can help sustain a writing practice while also teaching. The workshop will draw from essays and poems from the forthcoming anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, and how those pieces engage different aspects of writing and teaching. We’ll discuss how these challenges surface in our own writing lives and participants will be offered generative prompts and time to write. The workshop will include time for participants to share their drafts, compare experiences, and brainstorm directions for future writing. Participants will leave with the kernels of a couple pieces of writing they’re excited to keep working on and strategies to help sustain that momentum.

About the instructor

brittny ray crowell holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, is the recipient of an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship, an Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry, and the Lucy Terry Prince Prize, judged by Major Jackson. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Frontier, The Common, The West Review, Mount Island, Aunt Chloe, Copper Nickel, The Journal, and the anthology Black Lives Have Always Mattered. She recently participated as one of the librettists for the Kennedy Center’s Cartography Project. A secondary educator for nearly fifteen years, she teaches advanced creative writing at Pershing Middle School, is a poetry editor for Gulf Coast, and has led Inprint Teachers As Writers Workshops and Inprint Senior Memoir Workshops.

Please note that the registration fee and tuition for online workshops are nonrefundable. By registering for an Inprint Writers Workshop you are agreeing to Inprint’s registration policies. If this workshop is full when you try to register, please sign up on the waiting list here so you receive priority registration the next time this class is offered. For details and a schedule of all the current workshop offerings, click here. 

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