Award winning author Catherine Bowman will lead a six-week virtual writing workshop titled “Cold Comfort: Writing Our Lives in Troubled Times, Part Two.” The free weekly classes will begin Feb. 2 and are coordinated by the Center for Rural Engagement.
Each week, sessions will be taught by Bowman and program coordinator Julianna Connelly on Zoom. They’ll give optional writing prompts, exercises and readings covering genres such as poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.
“This past year finds us exhausted, antsy, helpless, bewildered, angry, and fearful,” the course description says. “In this virtual workshop we will come together to write together in our living rooms around the fire of our collective imaginations.”
Bowman serves as Provost Professor, teaching creative writing and literature at IU. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Paris Review, the Los Angeles Times and Best American Poetry.
More details on the workshop, including how to sign up, can be found on the Center for Rural Engagement website.
