Writers Workshop

Name: Writers Workshop
Start: 2025-11-21T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-11-21T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Firehouse Art Center

Schedule

Fri Nov 21 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

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!
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.
Month: September
Instructor: Sarah Elizabeth Schantz
Date: Friday, September 19th
Workshop: My Own Alphabet
Using letters from the alphabet, participating writers will utilize free-association and automatic writing to generate ideas and call upon their memories and their imagination to begin drafting and crafting their own CNF/lyric essays, poems, fiction, or sketches. This class will primarily be a generative space. The title of the workshop pays homage to Bobbie Louise Hawkins who published a collection of stories, essays, and memoirs of the same name with Coffee House Press in 1989 (there is no need to read this book).
Month: October
Instructor: Anthony Sulwer
Date: Friday, October 17th
Workshop: Junk Drawers (that's all you get)
Month: November
Instructors: Aspen Everett and Ashley Howell Bunn
Date: Friday, November 21st
Workshop: The Burning Haibun
The purpose of the Burning Haibun is to reveal what is hidden within the original context, or to demonstrate the fragmentation of thought and memory. Burning Haibuns are often a way to process trauma by providing a method to cut to the heart of the matter. Sometimes we create by erasing. This process often reveals much to the writer regarding their own creative practice and thought patterns.
Month: December
Instructor: Lauren "Robbie" Velasquez Robinson
Date: Friday, December 19th
Workshop: Magical Realism
Participants will explore the core elements of magical realism and create a piece of writing that blends the extraordinary with the everyday.