Tsunami: Shake Up Your Writing

Sunday, May 31, 10 am to 4 pm at the Orcas Island Library

Join Jill McCabe Johnson in this all-day workshop to shake up and transform your writing. Workshop goals will be to:
• recognize tics, ruts, and patterns that can plague our writing
• experiment with new techniques
• expand into original, unchartered territory
• have fun

Presented by the Friends of the Orcas Island Library, the workshop takes place Sunday, May 31, 10 am to 4 pm at the Orcas Island Library. The workshop is free to the first 20 people who register at the library. Registration begins May 1st. Please bring paper, pen, and a paragraph or stanza of your favorite writing.

Jill McCabe Johnson’s first poetry collection, Diary of the One Swelling Sea (MoonPath Press, 2013), won the Nautilus Silver Award in Poetry. She is the series editor of the “Being What Makes You” anthology series from the University of Nebraska Gender Programs, including Becoming: What Makes a Woman, the just released Being: What Makes a Man, and the forthcoming Belonging: What Makes Us, which explores voices across the spectrum of gender experience.

Jill is the founding director of Artsmith, providing artist residencies, workshops, and a reading series. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska. Honors include an Academy of American Poets Award, the ScissorTale Review Editor’s Award in Poetry, the Louise Van Sickle Fellowship in Poetry, the Deborah Tall Memorial Fellowship, and the Paula Jones Gardiner Poetry Award from Floating Bridge Press.