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Writers' Workshop

The 2024 Writers' Workshop will be held on Monday, April 22, with sessions available in person. The Sinclair Writers' Workshop is and has been, for nearly 50 years, free of charge to the public and Sinclair students.  In-person sessions will be held at Sinclair Community College Dayton Campus: Library NW Logia. 

The Sinclair Writers' Workshop is and has been, for nearly 50 years, free of charge to the public and Sinclair students. 


 

 

2024 Schedule

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.:  “YA and Children's Books” with Trudy Krisher | Trudy Krisher has a reputation as a trailblazer in writing and speaking out about sensitive issues surrounding self identity, race, and gender through her fictional works. She is the author of 10 books - YA novels, children's books, and a scholarly biography. She has won many awards for her writing including an Ohioana award,  an International Reading Association Award, and several awards from the American Library Association.

10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.: Poem in Your Pocket readings (open mic) | Please come to listen and bring your favorite poem (your own or your own favorite poet’s) to read!

11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.:  Ohio Poet Laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour | Kari Gunter-Seymour is the Poet Laureate of Ohio. Her poetry collections include Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press, 2022), winner of the "2023 Book of the Year Award" for narrative poetry from the American Book Fest and finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award; A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen (Sheila Na Gig Editions, 2020), winner of the 2020 Ohio Poet of the Year Award and Dirt Songs (forthcoming EastOver Press, 2024). A ninth generation Appalachian, she is the editor of I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio’s Appalachian Voices, winner of the "2023 Poetry Anthology Best Book Award" from American Book Fest; funded through an Academy of American Poets Fellowship Grant and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is the executive director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of it’s anthology series, Women Speak. Gunter-Seymour holds writing workshops for incarcerated teens and adults and women in recovery. She is a retired instructor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University; the founder, curator, and host of "Spoken & Heard," a seasonal performance series featuring poets, writers, and musicians from across the country. She was selected to serve as a 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival Poet and is an artist in residence for the Writing the Land Project and a Pillars of Prosperity Fellow for the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Verse Daily, World Literature Today, and on Poem-a-Day.

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Lunch on your own

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: “Writing Mystery" with Meredith Doench | Meredith Doench is the author of the Luce Hansen queer thriller series and the 2022 stand-alone thriller, Whereabouts Unknown. Meredith is an avid armchair detective and a board member of Mystery Writers of America, Midwest Chapter. She’s also a principal lecturer of creative writing and literature at the University of Dayton in Ohio. Learn more at www.meredithdoench.com

1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.: Poem in Your Pocket readings (open mic) | Please come to listen and bring your favorite poem (your own or your own favorite poet’s) to read!

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.: Leroy Bean is a Dayton native who has been a professional poet since 2014. Mental health, identity, and philosophy are heavy influences that inform his work, especially speaking to Black males to exemplify the power of agency over your narrative. He spent his developmental years in the Midwest spoken word scene honing his craft, eventually extending past his region and recently internationally to Paris, France.

3:00: Poem in Your Pocket readings (open mic) | Please come to listen and bring your favorite poem (your own or your own favorite poet’s) to read!

All of these events are free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Kate Geiselman (kathryn.geiselman@sinclair.edu)