Prompt Festival: Spring Forward, Writers! with Cheryl J. Fish (via Zoom)

This workshop is open to writers of all genres and all levels. We’re approaching the end of winter, and setting our clocks forward to return to daylight savings. In that spirit, we will draw on a variety of prompts to spring forward in our writing. These include randomness, set forms, and techniques drawn from other creative arts. We shall use short writing sprints to generate new work and/or revise a draft of what we’re working on, and take it in an unexpected direction. We shall look at brief examples, and share our own efforts, as well as talk about how writing with prompts can help us to surprise ourselves.

Cheryl J. Fish’s debut novel Off the Yoga Mat, the story of three characters coming-of-middle age, was published by Livingston Press/UWA in 2022. She is the author of The Sauna is Full of Maids, poems and photographs celebrating Finnish sauna culture, the natural world, and friendship, and Crater & Tower,…