The Magic of Collaboration: A Free Generative Workshop. Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle, Instructors
Ended Apr 30, 2025
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Full course description
Registration opens on Wednesday, January 22, 2025.
IOWA SUMMER WRITING FESTIVAL
Spring 2025
The Magic of Collaboration: A Free Generative Workshop (Two-Hour Workshop)
Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle, Instructors
Wednesday, April 30, 2025 on Zoom
- 4:30 pm–6:30 pm Iowa/Central Time
- 5:30 pm–7:30 pm Eastern Time
- 2:30 pm–4:30 pm Pacific Time
- 3:30 pm–5:30 pm Mountain Time
Fee: FREE
Course Description
The act of writing is, in its nature, a solitary endeavor: All of us hunched over our desks, toiling over sentences, lines, and language in isolation. Ever find yourself wondering what it would be like to collaborate in your writing? This free generative workshop invites you to participate in collaborative writing strategies. You will engage in guided discussion about collaboration and the role of collaboration in your lives, generate new ideas and new writing, and collaborate with others in the room in real time. You will be guided by Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle, seasoned collaborators with each other and with others. Their collaborative novel, Tannery Bay, was published by Fiction Collective Two (FC2)/University of Alabama Press in 2024. All writers working in all genres are welcome to attend this workshop.
Instructors
Steven Dunn (a.k.a Pothole, cuz he’s deep in these streets) is a Whiting Award winner who was shortlisted for Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. He’s the author of three novels: Potted Meat (Tarpaulin Sky, 2016), water & power (Tarpaulin Sky, 2018), and Tannery Bay (FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2024), which is co-authored with his homie Katie Jean Shinkle.
Katie Jean Shinkle’s books include Tannery Bay (FC2/University of Alabama Press, coauthored with Steven Dunn). Other work can be found in or is forthcoming from Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance (Sarabande Books), The Nation, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Arts from the University of Denver, and she serves as co-poetry editor of DIAGRAM.
This course is FREE.
Registrations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
Class size is limited to 300.
Refund & Cancellation Policy
If you need to cancel your enrollment, please let us know as soon as possible.
Terms & Community Policy
1. The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is a program for adults. You must be at least 18 years old to enroll in Festival workshops.
2. The Iowa Summer Writing Festival is a community built on an assumption of shared enterprise, in the spirit of mutual respect. We reserve the right to a) revoke the registration of or b) dismiss from the program any person who disrupts the learning/working environment of others. Participants in the Festival are subject to all University of Iowa policies governing conduct in our community, whether online or in person.
Questions?
Contact the Iowa Summer Writing Festival: iswfestival@uiowa.edu. Phone: (319) 335-4160.
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