Participants will "warm up" with prompts--words or sentences designed to free writers from common  what should I write  fears or self-conscious dilemmas. The idea is to keep pens moving and tap the unconscious mind. New and experience writers often surprise themselves with the words that eerge. Writers will read aloud so we participants can share what we "hear" in the pieces. No critiques, only reactions.

Class meets online Thursday, October 24, 6 - 8 pm Central time. A link to join the session via Zoom will be sent within 24 hours of the program.

Class size: Minimum 5, maximum 12.

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Teaching Artist

BettyJoyce Nash's recent novel, Everybody Here is Kin (Madville Publishing, 2023), was a runner-up for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Award. Her essays, articles, and stories have aired on the NPR-affliate WVTF and have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, North Dakota Quarterly, Reckon Review, Across the Margin, Broad River Review, Writer's Digest, and Publisher's Weekly. In 2015, she won the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Prize. She co-edited Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, a collection of literary short stories that probe America's compllicated relationships to firearms (University of New Mexico Press, 2017). Her fiction has been recognized with fellowships from Wildacres; Write On, Door County; MacDowell; The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; VCCA-France; The Ragdale Foundation; the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland; and the Weymouth Center. She earned an MSJ with distinction from Northwestern's Medill Journalism School and her MFA in fiction from Queens University of Charlotte. She teaches fiction at WriterHouse in Charlottesville. She has also taught writinng at the University of Richmond and the Albermarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail.