Glimmers | A Generative Workshop & Technique for Prose Writers & Poets Alike with
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz

Using a concept Pam Houston calls “glimmers,” we will draw from our past, from our everyday, and from our dreams to write what haunts us. This class will be purely generative so come prepared to do lots of writing; you will also leave with more tools in your writing toolbox. Sometimes the right "glimmer" serves as the revision strategy you didn't know you needed.
While the instructor pays homage to Houston who coined this term, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz has
created sub-categories of glimmers, and occasionally dips into the realm of divinatory poetics while discussing this phenomena and practice.
 

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz is a writer, witch, and widow living in a Victorian bungalow on the east
side of Old Town Longmont, Colorado close to the tracks and the nostalgic rumble of freight trains passing through. Her novel Fig debuted from Simon & Schuster in 2015 and was selected by NPR as A Best Read of the Year before winning a 2016 Colorado Book Award. Her short fiction, essays, and poems have been published in journals such as Third Coast, Hunger Mountain, Los Angeles Review, Midwestern Gothic, and more. She adjuncts for the MFA at Naropa University; is faculty at Lighthouse Writers Workshop; and owns and operates (W)rites of Passage where she offers workshops and manuscript midwifery with an emphasis on divinatory poetics. She lives with her three cats—Tilly, the matriarch calico from Taos, New Mexico; Cinder, a gray rescue from Lubbock, Texas with a Tom Waits’ rasp of a meow and an Eeyore disposition; and finally, Ponyboy, a once-feral Siamese kitten from Casper, Wyoming turned total sweetheart.

**Also featuring at night at our evening spotlight reading.