(Re)Creating Genre: Blurring Lines & Labels 6-Week Zoom Class, Starts Thursday, July 11th, 2024

Class Starts Thursday, July 11th, 2024 The class will meet weekly via Zoom (Thursdays, 7:00PM EDT - 9:00PM EDT / 5:00PM MST - 7:00PM MST). Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Led by Hillary Leftwich, the author of two books, Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (Agape Editions, 2023, new edition) and Aura (Future Tense Books and Blackstone Audio Publishing, 2022), with a third collection of experimental/hybrid forms TBA. Her latest work can be found or forthcoming in The Sun, Santa Fe Writers Project, and The Rumpus.  This workshop is best suited for intermediate to advanced writers who are already familiar with both forms of lyric essay and poetic forms. The most important part of being comfortable experimenting with genres is being brave and learning the tools to experiment and create the forms that work best for your writing.  In this six-week workshop, we’ll focus on creating a mashup of genres using the lyric essay as the b