Sarah Strickley

Biography

Sarah Anne Strickley is the author of the short story collection, Incendiary Devices (Tolsun Books, 2023); the novella, Sister (Summer Camp Publishing, 2021); and the short story collection, Fall Together (Gold Wake Press, 2018). She’s a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowship, an Ohio Arts grant, a Glenn Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters, the Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize for Prose and other honors. Her stories and essays have appeared in Oxford American, A Public Space, Witness, Harvard Review, The Southeast Review, The Normal School, Ninth Letter, storySouth and elsewhere. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She’s a term Assistant Professor of creative writing at the University of Louisville and serves as faculty editor of Miracle Monocle, UofL’s award-winning literary journal. She lives in Kentucky with her husband, the writer Ian Stansel, and their children.

Events

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Nurturing a Healthy Writing Habit

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As any writing instructor worth her salt will tell you, the key to developing as a writer is devoting your time and energy to the craft. But, as any busy budding writer might attest, that time can often be difficult to come by in the hustle and bustle of modern life. In this weekend workshop, writers will learn strategies for cultivating a healthy writing practice. Specially-designed writing prompts will challenge you to make the time in your everyday life for your creative ambitions; feedback from fellow writers will help you to sharpen your skills; and group discussions of a variety of different published works will help you to become more aware of the literary community that awaits you.

In this workshop, we will generate new writing through exercises and assignments; provide feedback on writing you produce in our weekend.
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Writing from Life

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Have you ever wondered if the stories you’ve grown up hearing about your family would make for a powerful written work? Have you ever considered bringing the story of your own life to the page? If so, this weeklong workshop is right for you. Writers will learn the difference between an engaging anecdote and a compelling work of art by experimenting in a variety of forms: short stories, literary essays, poetry, hybrid, and experimental work. Close readings of published work and generative writing exercises will draw forth the matters of craft at hand, and workshop sessions will help participants shape the raw materials of life into persuasive works of prose or poetry. Beginners are welcome; the focus will be on generating new work, but participants are welcome to bring project ideas to the table.

In this workshop, we will generate new writing through exercises and assignments; provide feedback on writing you produce in our week.
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