Free Gen for November: Jenny Colville

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: Jennifer Colville

Date: Sunday, Nov 17, 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. 

JENNIFER COLVILLE holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Utah. She currently works as the director of PorchLight Literary Arts Center in Iowa City and of PromptPress, a publisher of ekphrastic and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Her collection of short stories, “Elegies for Uncanny Girls,” was published by Indiana University Press, and her short stories and essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, Diagram, the Northwestern Review and the Huffington Post. Her essay “White Ink and the Great American Macho” was a Longreads pick of the week, and named a favorite essay of the year by Entropy. Her novel in progress has been supported by a fellowship from the Iowa Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.