We’ll look at the lyric essay, poem, prose poem, and flash non-fiction as potential paths for exploration and expression. How do you decide which form best suits what you want to say? This workshop will be both practical and playful.

Whether poetry or prose, Ann de Forest's work often centers on the resonance of place. Her short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in Coal Hill Review, Unbroken, Noctua Review, Cleaver Magazine, Found Poetry Review, The Journal, Hotel Amerika, Timber Creek Review, Open City, and PIF, and in Hidden City Philadelphia, where she is a contributing writer. Ways of Walking, an anthology of essays she edited, will be published by New Door Books in May 2022.

Amy Beth Sisson is struggling to emerge, toad-like, from the mud in a small town outside of Philly. She hopes to live at the boarder of genres. Her poetry has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, The Night Heron Barks, and Ran Off With the Star Bassoon. Her fiction has appeared in The Best Short Stories of Philadelphia, Enchanted Conversation, and Sweet Tree Review. Her non-fiction for children has appeared in Highlights High Five and Fun for Kidz magazines. In fall of 2021, she started an MFA in Poetry at Rutgers Camden.