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For writers in all genres -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama.
This writing-intensive workshop will focus on learning to write quickly without pause for correction to free up your creativity, while strengthening your ability to develop new ideas for poems, plays and other genres of writing. Writers will have opportunities to share one selected free write, and Dr. Weems will provide feedback as needed for free-writes that are good drafts for future writing projects.
Writer in Residence Dr. Mary E. Weems is a poet, playwright, author, performer, imagination-intellect theorist and social/cultural foundations scholar. She is the author of 13 books, including Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues; Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect; and Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect: I Speak From the Wound in My Mouth. Her five chapbooks include white, and she has written numerous poems, articles and book chapters.
Dr. Weems received a 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize for her full-length drama MEAT, and her play Another Way to Dance won Cleveland Public Theatre’s Chilcote Award. Both of her books of poems – For(e)closure and An Unmistakable Shade of Red and the Obama Chronicles – were finalists for Ohioana Book Awards. She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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