Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. A different, talented writer in our area will lead each Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. A different, talented writer in our area will lead each session, offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (that is, writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the start of a newly written piece. Writers in all genres are welcome.

In September, the workshop leader is Alisha Jeddeloh. She is a writer; the fiction editor of Brink, a literary journal dedicated to publishing hybrid, cross-genre work of both emerging and established creatives; and an editor of the We the Interwoven series of bicultural anthologies. In her writing, she explores the lies we tell ourselves and others, as well as the tension between individual and community, insiders and outsiders. She lives in Iowa City with her family, where she is currently working on a novel that examines the intersection of astrology, technology, and transcendence.