Generative Spiral Creative Writing Workshops

This generative workshop series will allow our minds to circle a spiral of questions & ideas, to be liberated by the non-linear. Expect strange and very intentional multi-step prompts that shake you from the status quo.

These workshops are for any writer, artist, thinker, dreamer, human looking for insight into their creativity that doesn’t come from straightforward thinking. We will use art, artifice, poetry, history, the esoteric, & my love of questions to guide us into the spiral. These classes are drop-on (come to one, come to some, come to all) and allow space to explore the strange in community, to craft beautiful images, to get your pen moving in a low stakes way.

4 Sundays at Noon: 10/26, 11/9, 11/23, 12/7

$10-$20 sliding scale per class

Register here or drop in day of welcome

email nicolevbasta@gmail.com if you need a fee waiver (1 free spot per class available).

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nicole v basta is a poet with proud familial roots in the coal mines and garment factories of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She is the current Poet Laureate of Tompkins County / Ithaca, NY. Her poems have found homes in places like Ploughshares, The North American Review, Third Coast, The Cortland Review, Best New Poets 2023, etc. and she has published two chapbooks.

She is also a community educator, arts event’s producer, and a visual artist. nicole has collaborated with other poets, musicians, dancers, architects, sculptors etc. and her work has been generously supported by Monson Arts, the Saltonstall Foundation, Art Farm Nebraska, etc.

Her poetry, art practices, and teaching practice are rooted in wild making, not academics, and connected to the traditional sense of resourcefulness of her ancestors. She creates with the blessings of sacred uselessness and believes imagining a more just world is the first step to creating one. More here— www.nicolevbasta.com