A Magical Workshop in Issaqah this Saturday plus NEA and arm bits
- At February 06, 2014
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Update on Feb 8: This workshop has been cancelled due to snow! That’s right, snow! We hope to reschedule down the road…
This Saturday, in Issaquah, despite the messed-up arm, I’ll be leading a workshop called “In a Land of Make-Believe.” I hope you can join me! Here’s the description:
“Join Redmond’s second Poet Laureate Jeannine Hall Gailey for an afternoon workshop where participants let their imaginations run wild while writing poems based on characters from fairy tales, comic books, mythology, and other magic origins. Swords, villains, grand romance, transformations, and happy endings optional.”
Where? The ARTEast Art Center
When? 4-5 PM
You can register here. The cost is $12, which goes to support the arts and artists on the East side!
I’ve had a frustrating time with the elbow break, which now might include some cartilage damage that might require surgery – eep! More time-consuming imaging tests and a second opinion with an elbow specialist are pending. Not the way I’d choose to spend the weeks before AWP…
And I’m working on the NEA application, harder when you’re trying to do all the typing and formatting with your one good hand. It’s such a gamble, but all you can do is try!
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
