Are you ready to ask new questions about your fiction, nonfiction, or poetry? In this multi-genre workshop for writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, you will practice countless ways to reignite your curiosity and deepen your thinking about your writing. As a community of artists, we will consider how to choose playfulness over perfection and daring over caution. Through writing prompts, you will experiment with elements ranging from form to the point of view and consider how revision best serves your process. This will be a hands-on workshop where you will generate new writing, revise, and share your work with a group of committed and thoughtful writers.

Catina Bacote is a nonfiction writer and educator. She is a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and her essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, December Magazine, Gulf Coast, The Common, Southern California Review, Prairie Schooner, Kweli Journal, The Offing, and the anthology This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home. Her writing has been supported by the Ann Cox Chambers Long-form Journalism Fellowship from MacDowell, the Alice Judson Hayes Social Justice Fellowship from Ragdale, and the American Association of University Women. She holds an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an MFA from the University of Iowa, where she subsequently served as the Provost’s Visiting Writer in Nonfiction. She has taught creative writing at Warren Wilson College, St. John’s University, and currently teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.