After-Hours Writing Workshop with Texas Poets Laureate Karla K. Morton and Alan Birkelbach
Fri, Aug 11
|Seaside Assembly Hall
Inspiration. Encouragement. Validation. Critique. Connection. Our “After-Hours” Writing Workshops are designed for all this and more.
Time & Location
Aug 11, 2023, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Seaside Assembly Hall, 168 Smolian Cir, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459
Guests
About the event
Emerald Coast Storytellers will be partnering with Escape To Create and the Seaside Institute, bringing distinguished writers to our area as part of their 30th anniversary celebration. Celebrated poet, speaker, author and storyteller Karla K. Morton, 2010 Texas State Poet Laureate and esteemed alumnus of Seaside's “E2C” residency, and 2005 Texas Poet Laureate Alan Birkelbach will read a selection of poems from their awarded book The National Parks: A Century of Grace.
The poet laureates will lead the After-Hours Writing Workshop. Come armed with your pens, journals, and laptop! Be ready to be inspired by their prize-winning writing and story of their four-year long journey across America before launching into a writing prompt.
This special program is made possible through a grant from Seaside Arts & Entertainment Corporation.
The evening will begin with cocktail hour starting at 6 PM, with the event running from 7-9 PM. Wine and light bites will be available,…