January Jumpstart!

Congratulations! You’ve resolved to prioritize your writing in 2025. Well, Bookends University is here to help! Sign up for January Jumpstart and get ready to crush your writing goals. In this hour-and-a-half generative workshop, participants will be guided through a series of prompts aimed at freeing your subconscious and letting your pen run wild. You’ll leave with potential new stories, poems, essays, and friends! The Minibar will be open for a happy hour prior to the workshop, and we’ll be sure to leave time for participants to share their work. Included in your tuition is a composition notebook full of blank pages eager to accept your genius. No previous writing experience is required, so in the words of the great writer David Lee Roth: “might as well jump!”

The workshop will be led by Bookends University Programming Director, Jeremy T. Wilson.

Jeremy T. Wilson is the author of the novel The Quail Who Wears the Shirt and the short story collection Adult Teeth. Since earning his MFA from Northwestern University in 2011, he has taught creative writing for multiple organizations in and around Chicago. He is a former winner of The Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and his work has appeared in literary magazines including The Carolina Quarterly, The Florida Review, Jet Fuel Review, The Masters Review, Sonora Review, Third Coast, The Best Small Fictions 2020, and other publications. He lives and writes in Evanston, Illinois.

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