Join us on August 21st from 7-9 pm for “Writing Your South,” a workshop exploring who we are as contemporary Southerners through a series of writing prompts taught by Jessica Handler.

Jessica Handler is the author of the novel The Magnetic Girl, winner of the 2020 Southern Book Prize and a nominee for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Her memoir Invisible Sisters was named one of the “Books All Georgians Should Read,” and her craft guide Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss was praised by Vanity Fair magazine. Her writing has appeared on NPR, in Tin House, Drunken Boat, Full Grown People, Oldster, The Bitter Southerner, Electric Literature, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and The Washington Post. She was the SP ’23 Ferrol Sams, Jr. Distinguished Writer in Residence at Mercer University in Macon, Ga, and is a member of the Core Faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan College’s low-residency MFA.Bring your favorite journal and writing utensil and join us as we build literary community through the humid textures and diverse perspectives of Southern living.

Tickets are $10. Mask suggested.