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A 10-Week FREE Creative Writing Workshop for LGBTQIA+ Youth and Elders
Wednesdays, September 14 to November 16
Class Description
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909) was a lesbian novelist and short story writer born in South Berwick, Maine. She lived with her dear friend and romantic partner Annie Adams Fields in a “Boston marriage,” a committed partnership between women.
This FREE 10-week class, co-hosted by Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance and Sarah Orne Jewett House, will bring together LGBTQIA+ youth and elders to express and share stories, words, and moments from their lives.
The instructor, Jan Bindas-Tenney, will support participants to consider queer friendship and the fierce bonds, sadness, and light of queer chosen family by reading letters between Audre Lorde and Pat Parker, poems by Cameron Awkward Rich, Danez Smith, and CA Conrad among others.
Participants will experiment with creative writing, generate new work, and pursue and polish at least one selected piece that will be collected with other participants’ work in a published chapbook at the end of the class.
Queer writers of all levels are welcome to sign-up.
Jan Bindas-Tenney is a white trans non-binary & queer organizer, facilitator, reader and parent living on unceded Abenaki land. They hold an MFA in nonfiction from University of Arizona. Their writing has appeared in Orion, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters, CutBank, The Maine Review, Portland Press Herald Deep Water, among other places. They work at the Maine Humanities Council.
REGISTRATION
This class is free for LGBTQIA+ youth and adults interested in spending time writing. When you register below, you will receive an automatic email acknowledging your registration. MWPA will follow-up to confirm your enrollment and send you class instructions and directions to the workshop site.
QUESTIONS
For any questions regarding this workshop, please contact Taryn Bowe at taryn@mainewriters.org.
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