POET CAMP Registration
Registration
Write Where It Hurts:
Writing pain, illness & disability
with Allison Blevins
Sunday, April 12, 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Eastern Time
$50 Full / $25 Scholarship
*Live on Google Meet. This workshop will be recorded.
Sonya Huber writes, “I want to be better than my pain, but I cannot will my way through it. I have willed my way through so much pain in my life, and now I have come up against pain that is bigger than my will.” How are we supposed to write through this pain? This generative workshop explores work from writers working through illness and disability. We will read work from authors like Travis Chi Wing Lau, Ysabel Y. Gonzolez, and A.A. Vincent. Our readings will inspire writing prompts. We will also discuss and practice specific strategies. There will be time to share work. You will leave with concrete prompts to help you write where it hurts.
Sarah note: If the reduced rate would enable you to join us, please use that link. No questions asked! Please pay what you’re able. <3
Allison Blevins (she/her) is the queer disabled author of the forthcoming collections Black Hole Experiments for Ladies: Micro Essays and Shoot | Creature | Room: Conversations. She is also the author of Where Will We Live if the House Burns Down?, Cataloguing Pain, Handbook for the Newly Disabled: A Lyric Memoir, Slowly/Suddenly, and six chapbooks. Winner of the 2024 Barthelme Prize, the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and the 2022 Laux/Millar Poetry Prize, Allison serves as the Publisher of Small Harbor Publishing. allisonblevins.com
Write Where It Hurts - Full Rate $50
Write Where It Hurts - Reduced Rate $25
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