The Free Gen: Iowa City's Original Generative Workshop with Lizzie Cusick

About this event

Co-sponsored by PorchLight and Iowa City Poetry, the Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all income levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writers & teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests. It has been an adventure, and we are continually inspired by the creative concentration of participants, and the powerful beginnings the workshop generates. The Free Generative Writing Workshops are offered in a hybrid format.

Our November workshop will be hosted by Lizzie Cusick! Lizzie Cusick is a poet and dermatologist who recently received her MFA in from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches medical humanities at the University and is interested in writing as a means of attending to both the body and natural world with deep care and close observation. She is currently working on completing her first book of poems for publication.