Middle Creek Publishing’s Zoom Literary Workshop Series

This new series offers a celebration of literature, creativity, and community. As Middle Creek strives to nurture and promote the voices of today’s writers, they are also embarking on an exciting transition to become a nonprofit organization. This change will empower them to focus more on the quality of their work and extend their literary reach. You can be part of this transformative journey by supporting their fundraising goal of $2,300. Your donation for this workshop/workshop series will not only support Middle Creek’s workshops, but help further their mission as well, helping them access new opportunities through grants and donations.

Each month, Middle Creek Publishing will offer a donation-based virtual writing workshop and reading showcasing the amazing authors of MCP and sharing more about their mission. This is a donation-based event, so please pay what you can (suggested donation of $25 to $100). All proceeds will go to MCP featured readers and supporting MCP’s move to nonprofit status.

For March 2024, Middle Creek is honored to host Anne Haven McDonell for this virtual workshop and reading:

Listening and Enacting the Worlds of Other Than Human Beings

How might we imagine and create the textures of lives, minds, bodies, and habitats of other than human beings? Through imagery, syntax, and diction, we can create poems that leap from our own human consciousness into empathy with other beings. We’ll study some poems that embody such leaps of imagination, and we’ll write together from some prompts based on moves these poems make. All poetry lovers or people curious about poetry are welcome. Sharing writing will be optional, and all writing will be held with support, respect, and kindness.

Anne Haven McDonnell lives in Santa Fe, NM where she teaches creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. A recipient of a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, she is the author is Breath on a Coal, winner of the Halycon Poetry Prize from Middle Creek Publishing, and the chapbook Living with Wolves from Split Rock Press. Her poetry has been published in Orion Magazine, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, Narrative Magazine, Nimrod Journal, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. Her honors include a Narrative Annual Poetry Prize, a Gingko Ecopoetry prize, the fifth annual Terrain.org Poetry Prize, and a special mention for a 2021 Pushcart Prize. Anne Haven holds an MFA from the University of Alaska, Anchorage and has been a writer-in-residence at the Andrews Forest Writers’ Residency, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the Wrangell Mountain Center in McCarthy, Alaska, and MacDowell. She helps edit poetry for the online journal Terrain.org.