Cooper Street Workshop: Getting Started and Getting Unstuck

Where does writing come from? Where do you get your ideas, and how do you keep going when you’re feeling stuck or uninspired? This workshop will provide you with lots of prompts to spark your imagination and time to get started on new work. Whether you’re a poet, fiction writer, essayist, or general lover of writing, you’ll find suggestions that will help and encourage you. We’ll also talk about how to establish and maintain a writing practice in the midst of the busy-ness and distractions of daily life, and I’ll provide you with tips you can use to create time for your writing. You’ll leave with writing exercises and readings to help you continue writing.

$60 General; $10 Camden residents 

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About the instructor:

Nancy Reddy is the author of Double Jinx (Milkweed Editions, 2015), selected by Alex Lemon for the National Poetry Series, and the chapbook Acadiana(Black Lawrence Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Pleiades, Tupelo Quarterly, 32 Poems, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a Walter E Dakin Fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and grants from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the New Jersey Council on the Arts. She grew up in Pittsburgh, taught high school in New Orleans and Houston, and earned an MFA in poetry and a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is Assistant Professor of Writing and First Year Studies at Stockton University in southern New Jersey, and she lives outside Philadelphia with her family.