||| FROM SAM GAILEY for ORCAS ISLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY |||
In this evening workshop hosted by the Orcas Island Library, authors Veronica Kornberg and Jill McCabe Johnson use objects and mapping to create fresh writing on family. Participants are asked to bring an object that evokes family memories to use as a springboard for guided writing, listening, and small group sharing. It can be a photo, a teapot, a tie-pin—anything. All ages are welcome.
Date: June 10
Time: 6-8:00 pm
Location: OI Public Library
Maximum 25 participants.
Veronica Kornberg is the recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize, and the 2025 Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry, her work has appeared in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Poet Lore, Catamaran, Rattle, Indiana Review, Plume, Rhino Poetry, Calyx, and Beloit Poetry Journal. Veronica co-founded a long-running poetry book club and is a Peer Reviewer for Whale Road Review. At home in Pescadero, California, you can find her happily exploring the tidepools, or on her knees in the dirt in her large habitat garden of coastal scrub. Strange Gift is her debut poetry collection. veronicakornberg.
Jill McCabe Johnson is the author of four poetry collections and the memoir, Learning to Spar, forthcoming from Unsolicited Press. Honors include Nautilus Awards in Poetry and Nature Writing, Longreads’ Best of 2021 Stories, eight Pushcart nominations, and support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Artist Trust, and Hedgebrook. Recent works have been published in Fourth Genre, Lunch Ticket, Booth, Florida Review, Gulf Stream, VerseDaily, and Terrain.org. Jill is editor-in-chief of Wandering Aengus Press and its imprint, Trail to Table Press. She spends her free time writing, hiking, and observing the natural world.
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