Notions of Home: Finding Our Safe Places and Spaces

The University of Akron Press and Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre in collaboration with ArtsNow, welcome award-winning author, Sarah Freligh to host the second of four generative writing workshops on self-care for writers.

Notions of Home: Finding Our Safe Places and Spaces
Setting is primarily the place our speakers/characters inhabit, but it can also be the forces that shape them and us. In this class, we’ll draw inspiration from some published poems of place and then revisit our own literary landscapes in guided prompts, while considering ways to create real landscapes that will allow us to write more.

Sarah Freligh
Sarah Freligh is the author of seven books, including Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize, Hereafter, winner of the 2024 Bath Novella-in-Flash contest and Other Emergencies, forthcoming from Moon City Press in 2025. Her work has appeared many literary journals and anthologized in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018), and Best Microfiction (2019-22). Among her awards are poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation.

Thanks to a generous ArtsNow grant, this workshop is provided at no charge. In addition, the first 20 registrants will receive a free copy of a resource text published by The University of Akron Press.

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