Free Gen for October: Jessie Kraemer

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: Jessie Kraemer

Date: Sunday, October 19, 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. 

Jessie is an essayist and artist. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction and an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa. She is winner of the 2024 Mississippi Review Prize in Nonfiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Mississippi Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Brink, Speculative Nonfiction, Meridian, TwoPeach, Essay Daily, and elsewhere. Her essay "The Wright Brother" was listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2021. She is currently working on a book about the flawed logics of Effective Altruism and love.