In this workshop, you will discover and draw upon the core images, ideas, and experiences that make us who we are.

Where do great images come from? How do our histories, dreams, and anxieties intersect with our writing? What lies at the heart of our own writing? In this generative workshop, we will write in response to a series of prompts and exercises that will help us explore and excavate the complex mythic landscapes we hold within ourselves. In doing so, we will discover and draw upon the core images, ideas, and experiences that make us who we are and shape the ways in which we imagine the world and our place within it.

Neil Aitken is the author of two books of poetry, Babbage’s Dream (Sundress, 2017), a semi-finalist for the Anthony Hecht Prize, and The Lost Country of Sight (Anhinga, 2008), winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize. Born in Vancouver, BC, he grew up in Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and various parts of the western United States and Canada. Although trained as a former computer programmer, he left that career in 2004 to pursue creative writing and teaching. He holds both an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside and a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is a proud Kundiman poetry fellow. He is the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review and his own poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, American Literary Review, The Collagist, Crab Orchard Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. In addition to writing poetry, he also works on literary translations of contemporary Chinese poetry and has recently completed his first opera libretto, Edge of a Dream, a commissioned work for LA Opera's Secondary in School Opera program. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada where he works as an online creative writing coach and manuscript editor. Visit him online at www.neil-aitken.com

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