Tell the Story of the Younger You
in Poetry or Flash Non-Fiction
A Writing Workshop
with Lynn Levin
Thursday, September 21, 2023
4-6 pm
Think back on the humorous, profound, or even disturbing moments of your younger years. Everyone has a story to tell. Together we will read some poems and flash non-fiction pieces in which writers capture scenes of their youth. After a discussion of the approaches used by these representative writers, you will write a poem of any length or a memoir of one or several paragraphs that recounts an episode from your younger days. We will share our work together in a spirit of mutual support and appreciation.
Lynn Levin is a poet and writer. She is the author of nine books, most recently the short story collection House Parties (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023) and the poetry collection The Minor Virtues (Ragged Sky, 2020). A Bucks County poet laureate and winner of the Bucks County Short Fiction Contest, Levin has published stories, poems, essays, and translations in Valparaiso Fiction Review, Elm Leaves Journal, Cleaver, Boulevard, Southwest Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mandorla, and other places. She lives in Southampton, Pennsylvania and teaches at Drexel University. Her website is lynnlevinpoet.com.