Our Next Workshop
The Happy Hour: Making Yourself and Your Creative Practice a Priority
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INSTRUCTOR: Angélique Jamail
PRICE: $60 per month TIME: Mondays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. CST, starting March 3. 2025 LOCATION: Online via Zoom LEVEL: All levels Join master teacher Angélique Jamail (an author, artist, and choreographer) for a Creative Happy Hour once a week to trouble-shoot whatever you’re working on and get some work time in. Our sprints will allow you to write or draw or develop or make whatever you want or need to, in a friendly and supportive environment with low stakes and even lower pressure. This is not a workshop. It’s not a class. You won’t be given prompts (unless you ask for one) and won’t have to produce anything for formal critique. There’s no specific homework. Just show up with your project, your questions, and whatever snack or beverage you want for a one-hour Zoom session to start your week off with a creative, nurturing vibe. |
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Our Next Event
Art in the AM: Vincent Valdez at CAMH
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DATE: Saturday, March 15 · 10:30am - 12pm CDT
PRICE: Free for members, $5 for non-members LOCATION: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston 5216 Montrose Boulevard Houston, TX 77006 Writespace takes writers into the community every month to visit the latest art exhibitions in town for writing inspiration! Our March meet-up is at the CAMH for Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… the artist’s first major museum survey. This exhibition cements Valdez as one of the most important American painters working today—imaging his country and its people, politics, pride, and foibles. Join us to view the exhibition and for an ekphrastic writing exercise. |
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What people are saying about our workshops:
"I hadn’t written poetry in more than 6 months. Not because I didn’t have anything to say—but rather, the opposite: I have too much to say, and not enough time to say it. That’s the beauty of short-form poetry—and I can think of no one better than Dr. Kendra Leonard to be your guide into this world.
If you’re like me—an unpracticed, imperfect poet who doesn’t know anything about the mechanics of sonnets or limericks—it can feel super intimidating to step into a poetry workshop. But Dr. Leonard made me feel anything but intimidated. She is kind, encouraging, and takes a gentle, question-led (rather than feedback-led) approach to workshopping poetry.
What’s truly amazing is that she’s helped me turn short-form poetry into a habit. I’ve written a poem every day since taking her workshop. Often, I don’t have a big block of time to sit down and journal out all my thoughts and feelings. Dr. Leonard’s workshop showed me that I can be just as expressive through short-form poetry, and in a fraction of the time.
I’m really excited to take her workshop on ekphrastic writing."
—Ynes Freeman, on Kendra Preston Leonard's Writing Short: Poetry in the Palm of Your Hand
If you’re like me—an unpracticed, imperfect poet who doesn’t know anything about the mechanics of sonnets or limericks—it can feel super intimidating to step into a poetry workshop. But Dr. Leonard made me feel anything but intimidated. She is kind, encouraging, and takes a gentle, question-led (rather than feedback-led) approach to workshopping poetry.
What’s truly amazing is that she’s helped me turn short-form poetry into a habit. I’ve written a poem every day since taking her workshop. Often, I don’t have a big block of time to sit down and journal out all my thoughts and feelings. Dr. Leonard’s workshop showed me that I can be just as expressive through short-form poetry, and in a fraction of the time.
I’m really excited to take her workshop on ekphrastic writing."
—Ynes Freeman, on Kendra Preston Leonard's Writing Short: Poetry in the Palm of Your Hand
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Writespace is a Houston grassroots literary arts nonprofit whose mission is to embrace and celebrate our city’s diversity by providing the type of high-quality training available through Master of Fine Arts creative writing programs at a fraction of the cost to writers of all genres, with a focus on providing programming for underserved communities and scholarships for low-income writers. |
