Free Gen for September: Jing Jian

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: Jing Jian // JJ

Date: Sunday, September 15, 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. 

JJ immigrated from Wuhan, China to the U.S at age 13. She is a graduate of MIT and the fiction program at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her obsession is unreliable narrators who are forced into understanding their own unreliability. JJ is also a pole dancer, a burlesque performer, a standup comedian, and a software engineer. She’s working on her first novel.