Thursdays on the Stoop is a series of free, virtual writing workshops led for and by our community members. With topics ranging from generative prompts to editing strategies, these informal workshops are sure to shake up your Thursday routine. RSVP below to get the link.

In Kalela Williams' forthcoming YA novel TANGLEROOT (forthcoming 10/15), the main character finds herself wandering a former plantation by that name, the land where her ancestors were once enslaved. In this free one hour workshop, Kalela will walk with you into an exploration of place. What are the singularities of a place, whether real or fictional? What are its energies and who are its witnesses? If you have images of places to share during the workshop, such as your old childhood home, or snapshots from your neighborhood, email them to development@bluestoop.org by October 7 so they can be incorporated. Be primed to explore, share, and reconsider how place shapes your poetry or prose.

Kalela Williams is an author, a proud auntie, a cat mama, and a "Black History Maven." For the past two years she has directed the Virginia Center for the Book, after more than a decade of creating public programs for the Free Library of Philadelphia, Mighty Writers, and other Philadelphia institutions. Besides her forthcoming book, her poetry and prose has been published and commissioned by BBC 4, Calyx: A Journal of Literary Arts for Women, Drunken Boat, Philadelphia Contemporary, and others.