KnoxWrites Writing Clinic Spring 2021
KnoxWrites Writing Clinics are held virtually on Wednesdays, April 7-May 26 from 12:00-1:00 PM. Writing clinics are short, 20-minute limited sessions for short projects. All writing programs are delivered remotely: online via Google chat, Zoom, over the phone, etc. Registration is required for writing clinic. Please fill out the online form with the required information.
If you are unable to meet Wednesdays from 12:00-1:00 PM, please write in the comment section of the registration form at least three dates/times you are available during KnoxWrites office hours, 11am-7pm, Monday-Friday. You'll receive an email from knoxwrites1@gmail.com within 2-business days to make arrangements.
NOTE: If you are visiting the Writing Clinic for a consultation about publishing, graduate school, test preparation, or other writing resources, please briefly describe in the comment section of the registration form your purpose of the visit. You may also share any comments you have about your upcoming appointment. For example, "I need some help with proofreading this letter" or "I need to write marriage vows and have writers' block..."
If you submit a document as a shared Google document: If you are working in Google Docs, please click the email address for Literary and Writing manager Jamie Lyn Smith-Fletcher to share your document with knoxwrites1@gmail.com
If you are unable to meet Wednesdays from 12:00-1:00 PM, please write in the comment section of the registration form at least three dates/times you are available during KnoxWrites office hours, 11am-7pm, Monday-Friday. You'll receive an email from knoxwrites1@gmail.com within 2-business days to make arrangements.
NOTE: If you are visiting the Writing Clinic for a consultation about publishing, graduate school, test preparation, or other writing resources, please briefly describe in the comment section of the registration form your purpose of the visit. You may also share any comments you have about your upcoming appointment. For example, "I need some help with proofreading this letter" or "I need to write marriage vows and have writers' block..."
If you submit a document as a shared Google document: If you are working in Google Docs, please click the email address for Literary and Writing manager Jamie Lyn Smith-Fletcher to share your document with knoxwrites1@gmail.com
Teen Writing Program & BreakBread Literacy Project
Creative Writing Workshops Spring 2021
TWP will continue it’s partnership with the BreakBread Literacy Project. These workshops will be held via Zoom. Workshops are free, but registration is required. TWP is open to students age 13-19, in grades 7-12. There is a fantastic line up of individuals that will help facilitate the meetings, encourage and help guide all young writers in accomplishing their writing goals.
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Saturday, May 22: Publishing Workshop: Getting Started
Crystal AC Salas and Jamie Lyn Smith
Registration required:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEld-yupzIpH9ChKZ_uDFxmhOQ7UPDyid-d
BreakBread Editors Crystal AC Salas (Poetry) and Jamie Lyn Smith (Fiction) will talk about their career journeys as writers and give participants an overview of how to get started publishing your work as a young writer.
Bios:
Crystal AC Salas is a Chicanx poet, essayist, educator, and community organizer. Her work has appeared in Northwest Review, PANK Magazine, Chaparral Poetry, The Acentos Review, Inscape Magazine, The Speakeasy Project, YAY! LA Magazine, and others. She is currently pursuing her MFA at UC Riverside where she has the opportunity to provide arts and storytelling outreach as a Gluck fellow and Along the Chaparral fellow, respectively. She also works as a high school English teacher and youth slam poetry coach. She lives in Los Angeles, where she writes about the city’s landscapes of grief and remembrance, of its memorialized and un-memorialized spaces.
Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher from Appalachian Ohio. An alumna of Kenyon College, Fordham University and Ohio State, her short story collection, Township, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in December, 2021. She currently serves as Fiction Editor at BreakBread Magazine and on the Leadership Team for BreakBread Literacy Project. She is a Consulting Editor (Fiction) at the Kenyon Review. Jamie Lyn is currently working on Hometown, a novel about millennial crises and the rise of white nationalism in the rural Midwest, for which she received a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.
http://jamielyn-smith.squarespace.com/
https://crystalacsalas.com/
Insta/Twitter: jamielynwrites
Publications:
https://theboilerjournal.com/2018/02/27/jamie-lyn-smith-2/
https://www.sequestrum.org/contributor-spotlight-jamie-lyn-smith
All TWP workshops are on Saturday’s. TWP will run through the end of May. Patrons may register by contacting Jamie Lyn Smith-Fletcher knoxwrites1@gmail.com. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have questions, contact Jamie Lyn.
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Saturday, May 22: Publishing Workshop: Getting Started
Crystal AC Salas and Jamie Lyn Smith
Registration required:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEld-yupzIpH9ChKZ_uDFxmhOQ7UPDyid-d
BreakBread Editors Crystal AC Salas (Poetry) and Jamie Lyn Smith (Fiction) will talk about their career journeys as writers and give participants an overview of how to get started publishing your work as a young writer.
Bios:
Crystal AC Salas is a Chicanx poet, essayist, educator, and community organizer. Her work has appeared in Northwest Review, PANK Magazine, Chaparral Poetry, The Acentos Review, Inscape Magazine, The Speakeasy Project, YAY! LA Magazine, and others. She is currently pursuing her MFA at UC Riverside where she has the opportunity to provide arts and storytelling outreach as a Gluck fellow and Along the Chaparral fellow, respectively. She also works as a high school English teacher and youth slam poetry coach. She lives in Los Angeles, where she writes about the city’s landscapes of grief and remembrance, of its memorialized and un-memorialized spaces.
Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher from Appalachian Ohio. An alumna of Kenyon College, Fordham University and Ohio State, her short story collection, Township, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in December, 2021. She currently serves as Fiction Editor at BreakBread Magazine and on the Leadership Team for BreakBread Literacy Project. She is a Consulting Editor (Fiction) at the Kenyon Review. Jamie Lyn is currently working on Hometown, a novel about millennial crises and the rise of white nationalism in the rural Midwest, for which she received a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.
http://jamielyn-smith.squarespace.com/
https://crystalacsalas.com/
Insta/Twitter: jamielynwrites
Publications:
https://theboilerjournal.com/2018/02/27/jamie-lyn-smith-2/
https://www.sequestrum.org/contributor-spotlight-jamie-lyn-smith
All TWP workshops are on Saturday’s. TWP will run through the end of May. Patrons may register by contacting Jamie Lyn Smith-Fletcher knoxwrites1@gmail.com. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. If you have questions, contact Jamie Lyn.
Local Literary Partners
Please support our local literary partners.
The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College. The KR frequently hosts a diverse roster of world-reknowned authors in its reading series https://www.kenyonreview.org/reading-series-2018-19/ and hosts a free literary festival each November. https://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/literary-festival/
Paragraphs Bookstore is the pride of downtown Mount Vernon and hub for avid readers. Paragraphs offers classes for elementary and middle-school age writers in collaboration with The Kenyon Review. Paragraphs also sponsors readings and author visits.
Founded in 1929, the Ohioana Library Association collects, preserves, and celebrates Ohio literature and other creative endeavors. We are a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit literary organization serving the state of Ohio. For more information, visit www.ohioana.org.
We are a family run business of 23 years. We provide excellent service with years of experience and knowledge. We sell books and specialty toys for people of all ages.