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Check out IALA member Jen Siraganian’s poem “The Night of Her Funeral,” featured in @poetrydaily.bsky.social!🕯️
With striking language, Siraganian invites readers into an intimate moment of farewell through the eyes of a child.
📖 Read here: bit.ly/45lmpjM
black and white photo of author Brett Biebel with text that reads DAVID R COLLINS WRITERS' CONFERENCE PRESENTS "writing place: geography in short fiction with Brett Biebel" and an image of his book Gridlock
Whether it’s the name of the most popular local grocery chain or the physical features of the land, geography deeply impacts all of us. Everything from the way we speak to the foods we eat to the things we do for is influenced by where we were born and where we live. And all fiction is set somewhere. This workshop will feature readings and prompts about the role of geography in short stories and offer ideas about how to better make the words on the page represent a layered and authentic reality, whether it be outer space or Jupiter, Florida.
Brett Biebel is the author of 48 Blitz (Split/Lip Press, 2020), A Companion to Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon (University of Georgia Press, 2023-2024), and Gridlock (Cornerstone Press, 2024). His short fiction has been anthologized in Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction and featured in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Stories (2021). He writes and teaches in Illinois at Augustana College.
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For more info on the Conference or to register, visit www.mwcqc.org/events-oppor...
...but keep reading for more info on Biebel...
LOVED spending time with @brettbbl.bsky.social to learn about his upcoming workshop with us at the #CollinsWritersConference!
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We will continue to offer 1-on-1 critiques with instructors, manuscript pitches, and more. Stay tuned for further announcements and to get to know our faculty and their work a little better.
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Instructors include:
Skylar Alexander
Brett Biebel
Rebecca Entel
Marguerite L. Harrold
This year's workshops include novel writing, poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction of all manner.
The award-winning authors who will teach at the 20th annual #CollinsWritersConference is live!
We are embracing our roots & welcoming friends home & ensuring that our instructors are not just gifted writers, but skilled teachers.
You can check the dedicated Birdies page on our website for our ask.
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And of course, please hop over the Birdies website and donate to MWC- charity number 1370!
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There are lots of reasons to give to MWC and we'll be talking about the work we do a lot during the #Birdies season...
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Birdies is the MOST impactful way to donate, because we receive 100% of your donation PLUS a guaranteed minimum 5% bonus.
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#BirdiesForCharity is back!
The #JohnDeereClassic is upon us soon and so we, like so many of our friends in QC, are asking for your donation.
You can find her book CHICAGO HOUSE MUSIC at www.arcadiapublishing.com/pro...
and on Instagram: @margueriteharrold0
She has most recently published poems & essays in these journals & anthologies: Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora; Chicago Review: Black Arts Movement Issue; Olit; Anti-Heroin Chic; Sylvia Magazine; The Book of Bad Betties Anthology; Anthology House: A Visionary Ecology Project.
07.04.2025 19:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0She is the Educational Promotions Manager for African Poetry Book Fund, and an Associate Editor of Prairie Schooner. Marguerite is a PhD student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work focuses on African American and African Diasporic poetry, ecology, folklore, culture, social justice.
07.04.2025 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Marguerite L. Harrold is a poet and writer from Chicago. Her first book, Chicago House Music: Culture and Community was short listed for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2024 by Chicago Review of Books & for Outstanding Book on the History of Chicago 2025, by the Union League Club of Chicago.
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Testimony from Jo Ivy Young, winner of the Great River Writer's Retreat in 2022 "My time at the Benet House Retreat Center, as winner of the 2022 Great River Writers Retreat, was fulfilling, relaxing, and productive. I worked on my upper middle grade novel... The Benet House Retreat Center was such a beautiful setting for my retreat. The views were inspirational, the space was calming and large enough for nature walks. They provided lovely meals and a working kitchen for anything extra that I would want to prepare. There was a screened-in porch that was perfect in the evenings."
31.03.2025 19:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The winner will also receive a headline reading and promotion of their work.
Deadline to apply is May 1, 2025.
Apply online & review full guidelines on our website at www.mwcqc.org/contests/wri...
We ask the writer to provide a writing sample and information on the project they will be doing at this retreat. We provide this space for a writer to work on a project already in progress.
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The #GreatRiverWritersRetreat offers one Midwestern writer a fully-funded week alone with their writing at the stunning and solitary #BenetHouseRetreatCenter in rural Rock Island, IL.
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Some of the poets we'll feature are famous, others are emerging. All are talented, wonderful people.
Want to learn more about National Poetry Month?
Check out the video we made last year to announce the series.
(And follow us on YT & socials for the daily updates.)
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We loved celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth with thirty of our favorite poets last year so we decided to bring thirty new, incredible poets to you each day in April this year.
What to expect: We'll post a video of a new poet each day in April reading an original poem.
Three weeks from today is the #BeingHumanInTheAgeOfAI #ReleaseParty!
We are so proud to bring this beautiful anthology into the world and we feel really lucky to be able to have made a home for so many beautiful piece.
#GalvinFineArtsCenter on April 16!
#ancestors #writingworkshop #writingclass #anahitcass #armenianwriter #artclass #midwestwritingcenter #mwc #mwcqc #writemorelight
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Instructor Anahit Cass wrote her book #ReparationsOfTheHeart using these techniques and will share them with participants during this generative writing workshop.
All are invited, regardless of writing experience.
Saturday, April 12
11am-1pm Central Time
Online
$20 members / $30 nonmembers
MWC's next workshop invites anyone to bring a piece of their family history and listen to what stories want to be told.
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It's an excellent program for social, academic, professional, and emotional enrichment.
Apply today: www.mwcqc.org/events-oppor...
Apps are open for the #YoungEmergingWriters #Internship!
Our interns are paid to learn workshopping and writing and hang out with other writers. They get free tuition to the #CollinsWritersConference and professional opportunities.
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