Writers Workshop

Name: Writers Workshop
Start: 2025-08-15T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-08-15T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Firehouse Art Center

Schedule

Fri Aug 15 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Firehouse Art Center | Longmont, CO

Writers Workshop- Join the Firehouse Art Center Writers for a helpful, all levels, writers workshop. The event may include read throughs, prompts, sharing and more.
These events are free but the Firehouse Art Center, as a 501c3 non-profit organization, always appreciates donations!
Jessica Rigney
Month: January 17th
Workshop: From a Place of Love
Our most necessary connection is explored in this writing workshop designed to bring forth a writerly community connection through simple shared practices. Prepare to be vulnerable in a safe environment where love is the foundation for each exercise. We will ultimately explore and flesh out our very personal vision for the Love poem, in the format of your choice.
Alexander Shalom Joseph
Month - February 21st
Workshop: Sense and Memory
This workshop will be a journey through the senses and memory through writing. The focus will be to use the various prompts given to lean into various senses and the memories associated with the senses and culminating in a single piece of writing at the end of the class honed from all the other exercises. There will be one prompt associated with four senses and then a break, then some prompts about memory and finally a time to generate a piece of writing off of all of this.
Brianna Roselles
Month: March 21st
Workshop: Action Writing
Discuss action in writing - this includes even just basic movement - how to do it and why it's important to make it a key component in writing.
Sarah Lee
Month: April 18th
Workshop: Old, Strange Fairy Tales
Sarah Richards Graba
Month: May 16th
Workshop: The I-We and the Hybrid: an identity and writing experiment
What is the self? What is the family? What is the other? And who is your "we"? In this writing experiment, we will approach what it means when we claim and name our identities and our communities, what happens when we attempt to decolonize this, and what we are left with in the aftermath. Using writing as the means, we will investigate what arises when the body is an intersection (a la Gloria Anzaldúa), and aim to discover a space of both-and, a space of the hybrid.
Joshua C. Robinson
Month: June 20th
Workshop: Using the Duende to Write Preternatural Creative Works - Reimagining the Muse
What is Duende? Traditionally known as a goblin that steals the toenails of young children. The word Duende, in a literal sense, means goblin, ghoul, or gnome. Duende also exists as a force of nature that compels a writer to create. Duende may have its roots in children’s nightmares, but for the purposes of the artist of any kind, the Duende is an “intractable force,” a being that forces itself into the very creative arteries of the creator and forces us to make divine works that would otherwise be impossible.
John Rasmussen
Month: July 18th
Workshop: PERFORMING POETRY WITH MUSIC
Bring:
A poem to perform (doesn't need to be your poem), or willingness
to write one
Readiness to perform for workshop (I will ask!)
Instrument(s) if you also play
Don't bring:
Negative self-talk. "That hound won't hunt"; (Lenny Chernila)
Lee Frankel-Goldwater
Month: August 15th
Workshop: Reconstructing Style
Style is the flavor of our writing, it is constructed of the tools we use consciously and unconsciously, it is made of our influences, our experiences, and our perspectives on the nature of language. Writers are often known by their styles as much as by the content they create. Let us reconstruct our understanding of style together and unpack what it can look like across a range of author influences. In this workshop we will examine our own styles, alongside those of others, and write across them to create something entirely new.