Workshops

Please note: workshops are safe learning spaces for LGBTQA+ and neurodiverse individuals. Loren welcomes open stimming, and the need for physical or emotional breaks during any time together.

In addition, Loren also strives to ensure physical accessibility in every workshop she offers. Any physical building that hosts Loren must be wheelchair-accessible, and offer accessible bathrooms.

Current Offerings

Love, Death, and Depression: Moving Beyond Cliché in Emotional Poetry

We’re often inspired to write poetry in a highly emotional state or in response to a powerful event in our lives (aka moments of love, death, or depression!). But in this writing, we often tip into cliches, abstraction, and hyperbole that can dampen the impact of the moment we’re trying to capture. In this workshop, students learn how to recognize all three of those common traps and revise effectively. We’ll do some generative writing based on prompts that incorporate all our senses to come up with new lines, metaphors, and ideas for future poems.

Geared to writers of all levels, ages 18+.

Two hours, available in-person or virtual.

Writing the Uncomfortable

What grosses you out? What makes you furious, and what terrifies you?

Do you avoid writing about these topics in your poetry or prose? If so, you’re missing out on a powerful component of your writer skillset, one that can open new channels of creative expression you never knew existed.

This 2-hour workshop will offer exercises, discussion time, and generative writing prompts to help you start to move past your aversions and begin to harness the power of uncomfortable imagery for your writing projects.

Geared to writers of all levels, ages 18+.

Two hours, available in-person or virtual.