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Sep
8
Sat
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library
Sep 8 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library | Sumas | Washington | United States

Are you an aspiring writer? Come join us to improve your writing techniques, get feedback on your writing and gain information about how to get your work published. All writing styles welcome (novel, short story, comics, etc.). This group meets on the second and fourth Saturdays. Can’t make it every time? No problem — come when you are able! For adults and teens grades 9 – 12.

 

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Sep
22
Sat
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library
Sep 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library | Sumas | Washington | United States

Are you an aspiring writer? Come join us to improve your writing techniques, get feedback on your writing and gain information about how to get your work published. All writing styles welcome (novel, short story, comics, etc.). This group meets on the second and fourth Saturdays. Can’t make it every time? No problem — come when you are able! For adults and teens grades 9 – 12.

 

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Sep
28
Fri
Valley Writers @ WCLS South Whatcom Library
Sep 28 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Valley Writers @ WCLS South Whatcom Library | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Valley Writers: an invitation to explore what you think you don’t know but already do. Bring a pen, paper or digital device and an open mind! No grammar, no spelling, no punctuation, no judgment. Led by CJ Prince. Meets monthly on the last Friday.

 

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Oct
13
Sat
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library
Oct 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library | Sumas | Washington | United States

Are you an aspiring writer? Come join us to improve your writing techniques, get feedback on your writing and gain information about how to get your work published. All writing styles welcome (novel, short story, comics, etc.). This group meets on the second and fourth Saturdays. Can’t make it every time? No problem — come when you are able! For adults and teens grades 9 – 12.

 

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Oct
26
Fri
Valley Writers @ WCLS South Whatcom Library
Oct 26 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Valley Writers @ WCLS South Whatcom Library | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Valley Writers: an invitation to explore what you think you don’t know but already do. Bring a pen, paper or digital device and an open mind! No grammar, no spelling, no punctuation, no judgment. Led by CJ Prince. Meets monthly on the last Friday.

 

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Oct
27
Sat
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library
Oct 27 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library | Sumas | Washington | United States

Are you an aspiring writer? Come join us to improve your writing techniques, get feedback on your writing and gain information about how to get your work published. All writing styles welcome (novel, short story, comics, etc.). This group meets on the second and fourth Saturdays. Can’t make it every time? No problem — come when you are able! For adults and teens grades 9 – 12.

 

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Nov
10
Sat
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library
Nov 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library | Sumas | Washington | United States

Are you an aspiring writer? Come join us to improve your writing techniques, get feedback on your writing and gain information about how to get your work published. All writing styles welcome (novel, short story, comics, etc.). This group meets on the second and fourth Saturdays. Can’t make it every time? No problem — come when you are able! For adults and teens grades 9 – 12.

 

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Nov
24
Sat
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library
Nov 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Sumas Writers Group @ WCLS Sumas Library | Sumas | Washington | United States

Are you an aspiring writer? Come join us to improve your writing techniques, get feedback on your writing and gain information about how to get your work published. All writing styles welcome (novel, short story, comics, etc.). This group meets on the second and fourth Saturdays. Can’t make it every time? No problem — come when you are able! For adults and teens grades 9 – 12.

 

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Nov
30
Fri
Valley Writers @ WCLS South Whatcom Library
Nov 30 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Valley Writers @ WCLS South Whatcom Library | Bellingham | Washington | United States

Valley Writers: an invitation to explore what you think you don’t know but already do. Bring a pen, paper or digital device and an open mind! No grammar, no spelling, no punctuation, no judgment. Led by CJ Prince. Meets monthly on the last Friday.

 

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Mar
16
Sat
Beauty, Beasts, and the Banal: Poetry Workshop @ Faith Lutheran Church
Mar 16 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Beauty, Beasts, and the Banal: Poetry Workshop @ Faith Lutheran Church

This workshop invites attendees to engage in dismantling perceptions of the unattractive, the uncelebrated, and the unremarkable to discover profound beauty. We will read poems that examine the cockroach, the vampire, the buttoning of a shirt, and the contents of a refrigerator, focusing on the ways in which their poets find reasons to celebrate each creature, action, and simple human behavior and through various writing prompts venture into creating our poems of exaltation.

Kami Westhoff is an award-winning writer, poet, and instructor of creative writing at Western Washington University. She received an MFA in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MA in Creative Writing from WWU. She is the author of the short story collection, The Criteria (Unsolicited Press), and three poetry chapbooks including Cloudbound, Sleepwalker, winner of Minerva Rising’s Dare to Be Contest, and Your Body a Bullet, co-written with Elizabeth Vignali. In her writing, she amplifies silenced voices and challenges systems that protect abusers.

Note: The $30 fee is considered a donation toward the Sue C. Boynton Poetry program, under the Whatcom Poetry Series, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and may be used as a tax deduction.

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Mar
25
Mon
Writing Spring: A Poetry Workshop @ Virtual over Zoom
Mar 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Writing Spring: A Poetry Workshop @ Virtual over Zoom

In the “Writing Spring” workshop we will align our lyrical voices with the changing season, with the time in the Northern Hemisphere when the natural world revives, and when we likewise are revitalized after the dark winter months. Our teachers in this session will be seedlings sprouting from the ground, animals re-emerging from hibernation, and the new life quickening within us. Everyone welcome!

D.J. Lee is an acclaimed writer, teacher, and regents professor in the English Department at Washington State University. She holds an MFA and a Ph.D., and her prolific writing includes more than 50 published lyric essays and prose poems, the memoir Remote: Finding Home in the Bitterroots (Oregon State University Press), and eight scholarly books. A photographer and papermaker, Lee often combines image and text.

Note: The $30 entry fee is considered a donation toward the Sue C. Boynton Poetry program, under the Whatcom Poetry Series, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and may be used as a tax deduction.

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