Please Surprise Me, a multi-genre generative writing workshop with visiting author Matt Cashion

This multi-genre generative workshop will encourage us to cultivate creative habits that employ spontaneity, improvisation, and counter-intuitive ways of imagining in order to surprise ourselves and our readers. We’ll explore the serious role of play. We’ll plunge courageously into territories of truth-telling that uncover stranger things. We’ll find fresh language and new angles of observation. We’ll train our senses to witness better the absurdities of the hour. We’ll keep it (sur)real. We’ll get wild with wonder and grow curioser and curioser. We’ll dreamstorm our ways into stories that become more alive than we could imagine.

Open to writers of all genres and levels.

Matt Cashion’s most recent book, How We Do Things Here (Cornerstone Press), a collection of linked stories, was a finalist in the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction. His story collection, Last Words Of The Holy Ghost won the 2015 Katherine Anne Porter Prize, and his novel, Our 13th Divorce, won the Edna Ferber Book Prize. Other work appears in The Sun, Cincinnati Review, Willow Springs, Carolina Quarterly, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. Born in the North Carolina mountains and raised in Coastal Georgia, he earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and now teaches Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. (www.mattcashion.com)

Saturday, May 9th from 10am - 12pm

@ Vernon County Museum, 410 S Center Ave, Viroqua, WI 54665

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Sliding scale tuition ($20-$50); scholarships are also available (please follow steps in registration link for scholarships.)