Writing with Joy

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Milan Kundera once wrote, “Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.” As writers, it can be all too easy to use our grief as fuel and to focus on our trauma as a means of proving our own necessity. But what of our delights? What about the sudden ecstasies that remind us of our humanity and, by extension, our drive to create art in the first place? In this two-hour workshop, we will challenge ourselves to access the wonder of this great, terrible world. We will discuss multi-genre work from Ada Limon and Jericho Brown to Ross Gay and Deborah Levy. We will also prioritize generating new work that centers our delight and offers a springboard to continue the noble pursuit of laughing and living. All genres welcome, sharing is completely voluntary.

Instructor: Loie Rawding
Loie Rawding is the author of the hybrid novel, Tight Little Vocal Cords (KERNPUNKT), a Finalist for the Big Other Book Awards and one of Lambda Literary’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020. She is an editor, creative mentor, and teaching artist with The Porch Writers Collective among other arts organizations. Loie grew up on an island off the coast of Maine. She studied theater in Boston and worked in publishing in New York, before earning an MFA at the University of Colorado. After seven years in Nashville, TN, Loie recently returned to Boulder with her family and is currently at work on her third novel. Say hello at: www.loierawding.com