Strange Places, an all-genres generative writing workshop with visiting author Melissa Faliveno

In this generative writing workshop, we'll be thinking about  place, and all things strange—what makes a place strange (or unique, or idiosyncratic), and how such places can become characters in our work—whether you're writing fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. We'll consider the places of our past and of our present—what's real and remembered, mythological and imagined—and how we might start with the very real places of our lives, then let them take on lives of their own on the page. Come ready to write, share, and discuss your process and discoveries!

Open to writers of all genres and levels.

Melissa Faliveno is the author of the novel Hemlock (Little, Brown, 2026) and the essay collection Tomboyland, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature,  and Debutiful, and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary  Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her work, which has  been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and received notable selection in Best American Essays, has appeared in Esquire, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Prairie Schooner, Brevity, and Brooklyn Rail, among others, and in the anthologies Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic (Harper Perennial, 2022) and the forthcoming Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music (Split/Lip, March 2026). Born and raised in Wisconsin and the former senior editor of Poets & Writers Magazine,  Melissa is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University  of North Carolina and lives in the woods outside Chapel Hill. www.melissafaliveno.com

Saturday, February 14th 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.)