With over 25 years’ experience, Brit offers reading recommendations, manuscript review, editorial critique, and constructive feedback on poetry and prose projects by writers in various stages of their development. For more information, rates, and availability, please briefly describe the nature of your work and needs by completing the contact form provided.

University of North Carolina Asheville

Great Smokies Writing Program Fall 2023

https://greatsmokies.unca.edu/fall-2023-classes/

Instructor: Brit Washburn
Meets in-person at UNC Asheville, Karpen Hall, Room 243

Thursday evenings starting 10/19, 6:00-8:30 

Nobel Laureate Louise Gluck has said, “I started working on something and it was really bad, it was crummy, but I was really so happy just to be working on a little crummy thing.” Even as our anxieties, our preoccupations with fear and regret, can dominate our consciousness, so too, can our preoccupations with creative work, but for the better. The practice of fiddling with “crummy little things”—on the page, or in our heads—can serve as salve and salvation in times that might otherwise be characterized by psychic anguish. In this workshop, we will explore the life-giving, life-sustaining nature of poetry as both readers and writers through the close examination of texts and exercises in observation, composition, and revision, as well as the sheer pleasure of the process and practice of writing itself. Readings will include work by Gluck, as well as Matthew Arnold, W.H. Auden, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, and others. 

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