Free Gen for July: Bella Shayevich

The Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests.

Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry and PorchLight Literary Arts Center.

This month's leader: Bela Shayevich

Date: Sunday, July 21, 5:30-7 pm Central (3:30 P, 4:30 M, 6:30 E)

Platforms: You're invited to attend online or in person

• To attend online, register HERE. After registering, the Zoom link will be automatically emailed to you
• To attend in person, please join us at PorchLight Literary Arts Center, 1019 E. Washington, Iowa City. 

Bela Shayevich is a Soviet-American writer and translator and recent graduate of the University of Iowa's MFA in Nonfiction Writing Program. Her latest book is Elena Kostyuchenko's I Love Russia, co-translated with Ilona Yabzhin. She is also the translator of Svetlana Alexievich's Secondhand Time, and Vsevolod Nekrasov's I Live I See (with Ainsley Morse).  Her writing has appeared in n+1, Jewish Currents, and Harper's.