February 7, 2025
January 22, 2025
Writing the Story in Poetry, Fiction, Or Memoir
Writers' Workshop
Got a story? Of course you do! There is a variety of narrative techniques used by writers in poetry, fiction, and memoir to draw in the reader. Come join in this Zoom workshop, four Tuesday evenings (7:00 to 8:30 pm) February 17-March 11, 2025. The workshop is sponsored by Lake Superior Writers. Participants will develop their own stories and, using guided prompts, experiment with various narrative techniques. It's going to be fun!
Register Here https://lakesuperiorwriters.org/writing-the-story/
Sheila Packa is a fiscal year 2024 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
January 16, 2025
The Rose Warner Series at the College of St. Scholastica 2025
Every year the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth hosts the Rose Warner Reading Series. This year is on January 31, 2025 and the featured poet is Kimiko Hahn. She was also hold a reading in the evening for the general public. In conjunction with this is a half-day conference for high school students. I'll be leading two break-out sessions for student writers along with two other Writers of Distinction, Marie Zhuikov and Nick Trelstad.
In 2023, Kimiko was named a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and received The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award. Additional honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, American Book Award, and NEA Fellowships. In her service to the field, she enjoys promoting chapbooks and has created a chapbook archive at the Queens College Library. Hahn is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Literary Translation at Queens College, The City University of New York.