Prompt-Writing like Speed Dating (Apr 15)
Prompt-Writing like Speed Dating (Apr 15)
Prompt, Write, Next, Prompt, Write, Next. . .
with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
Wednesday, April 15, 3-5:00 PM Eastern (registration closes at 10AM, April 15)
If you’ve attended Let’s Write Together! with Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, you’ll recognize the format: she’ll share a piece of writing to inspire you, offer a prompt related to it, and you will have time to write. Except she’ll be offering a new piece and prompt every 6-15 minutes during this two-hour generative class. Think of it like speed dating—there’s another piece and prompt just around the corner ready to inspire you, with time for sharing at the end. Cost: $50. Registration is required. Note: This class will be recorded for those who register and those who register but cannot attend.
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood grew up writing stories on her father’s blue Selectric typewriter. She is the author of Something So Good It Can Never Be Enough and A Small Thing to Want (both from Press 53) and four other books: The Going and Goodbye: A Memoir (Platypus Press, 2017); 52 Things I Wish I Could Have Told Myself When I Was 17 (Cimarron Books, 2018); and Trouble Can Be So Beautiful at the Beginning (Mercer University Press), winner of the 2019 Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry, and What the Fortune Teller Would Have Said: Flash Essays, winner of the 2022 Iron Horse Literary Review Prose Chapbook Competition. Shuly earned her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte, and her writing has been published in The New York Times, Brevity, The Sun, and others. Shuly also leads writing workshops through Press 53’s High Road Fest Online, including the popular Let’s Write Together!, a one-hour lunchtime workshop at Noon Eastern on Tuesdays. Learn more at Press53.com/online and at shulycawood.com
Testimonials
"I love the poems and the prompts. I always come out of the class with a draft I want to continue to develop." —L.V.
"These workshops have been excellent, and they are exactly what I need in the middle of my busy work day." —J.B.
"Shuly creates a safe space, and the group is supportive. Her choice of poems to read is wonderful." —L.A.