Free Gen for July: Ryan Collins

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: Ryan Collins

Date: Sunday, July 20, 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. 

Ryan Collins is the author of A New American Field Guide & Song Book and several chapbooks. Recently he was a finalist in the Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Contest, the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest, the Sixth Finch Chapbook Contest, and the Conduit/Minds on Fire Open Book Prize. His work has appeared in Apartment, The Mixtape Review, Ninth Letter, Oroboro, Past Ten, Sink Review, swamp pink, and many other places. He is the Executive Director of the Midwest Writing Center, and hosts the SPECTRA Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives.