This event has been CANCELLED due to circumstances beyond our control. We hope to reschedule in the future.

Join us in our second-floor reading room for a free writing workshop with writing coach Frankie Rollins, author of Do You Feel Like Writing? A Creative Guide to Artistic Confidence. This workshop addresses the inherent value of creative work for activists. Participants will be guided to examine their personal knowledge banks and histories and generate writing based on specific moments that shaped their values. Together, the group will examine symbols buried in the work and there will be time for optional sharing. Participants can respond in any genre and beginners are welcome. Please RSVP to reserve your spot, using the form below. To order a copy of Do You Feel Like Writing? for pickup at the workshop, call or email the store.

Frankie Rollins is the author of three works of fiction, The Grief Manuscript, The Sin Eater & Other Stories, and Doctor Porchiat's Dream, as well as her new book Do You Feel Like Writing? After over 20 years of teaching creative writing within the regimes of K-12 schools and then as full-time community college writing faculty teaching hundreds of writers a year, Frankie needed a change. She decided to harness the digital tools that the pandemic unleashed to publish her guide to artistic confidence, offer coaching, and offer unusually tender and supportive online creative writing classes.

Frankie converses with seekers about creativity with an unflagging radiant warmth. She knows that creative people must access their personalities, knowledge banks, memories, lostness-and-foundness. They must know the obstacles and dreams within them to make their art and she has developed ways to help them move authentically, confidently, and joyously into their work.