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SUMMARY:Okoboji Writers Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Sept. 28 – Oct. 1 in Okoboji\, Iowa \nJoin Founder Ana McCracken at the Okoboji Writers Retreat this Fall.  The Okoboji Writers Retreat is a unique gathering on the shores of West Lake Okoboji filled with inspiration\, creativity and community. Whether you’re polishing a manuscript or just getting started\, you’ll find expert-led sessions\, supportive peers and plenty of time to write in a beautiful lakeside setting. \nGet the Early Bird Discount before July 15 by clicking Here! 
URL:https://ameswriterscollective.org/event/okoboji-writers-retreat/
CATEGORIES:Author Talks,Classes,Open Write,Special Events,Workshops
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SUMMARY:The Art of the Haibun with Katherine Larson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the “Art of the Haibun” with poet\, Katherine Larson. \nKatherine Larson is the author of two collections of poetry—Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press\, 2011)\, selected by Louise Glück as winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets\, and The Speechless Ones (Interlinea Press\, 2016)\, recipient of the Vercelli International Civic Poetry Prize (former recipients include Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Adam Zagajewski). Her forthcoming book\, Wedding of the Foxes (Milkweed Editions\, 2025)\, is a collection of lyric essays. Larson’s work has appeared in numerous literary journals including AGNI\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Blackbird\, Boulevard\, Crab Orchard Review\, Kenyon Review\, The Massachusetts Review\, Notre Dame Review\, Orion\, Poetry\, and Poetry Northwest and anthologized in Read America(s): An Anthology\, Prentice Hall’s Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing\, and Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets. \nShe is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship\, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, the Larry Levis Reading Prize\, the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Poetry Prize\, and the Foreword Indies Gold Medal in Poetry. She has taught in the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is currently active with organizations and artists dedicated to conservation and environmental education in the Sonoran Desert and Gulf of California. \nTO REGISTER\, click here! Cost: $25 adults.\nAre you a Student? Choose “Student Ticket” & Enter “FREE” UNDER DISCOUNT CODE. \nThis event is held in partnership with the Iowa State University MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment Pearl Holgrefe Visiting Writers Series.
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SUMMARY:IPA's Fall Poetry Workshop w/ Debra Marquart
DESCRIPTION:Register for IPA’s Fall Workshop\n\nJoin the Iowa Poetry Association (IPA) at Fifth Street Writers for camaraderie\, pizza and poetry! We will be gathering in-person October 18th\, Saturday in Ames at the Ames Writers Collective (612 5th St). Debra Marquart will be our critic. To register\, email your poem to ipa@iowapoetry.com by September 15\, 2025. Visit iowapoetry.org/workshops for further details.\n\nThis workshop is FREE to IPA members ($20 for non-members which will include a 1-year IPA membership).\n\nAbout Debra Marquart\nDebra is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University\, as well as the Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program at University of Southern Maine. Marquart served as Iowa’s Poet Laureate and the Senior Editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment.  The author of seven books—including The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere and Small Buried Things: Poems—Marquart has been featured on NPR and the BBC and has received over 50 grants and awards including an NEA Fellowship\, a PEN USA Award\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice commendation\, and Elle Magazine’s Elle Lettres Award.  In 2021\, Marquart was awarded a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent books are The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging (2021) and a poetry collection\, Gratitude with Dogs Under Stars: New & Collected Poems (2023).  For more information: debramarquart.com
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