Gathering Voices:
Creating a Community-Based Writing Workshop
Marty McConnell offers start-to-finish instructions along with a grounding in the Gathering Voices approach for both aspiring and seasoned facilitators who want to establish or invigorate a poetry learning environment both in community-based workshops and classroom settings.
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Praise for Marty McConnell's Workshop Method
On my first day alone, Marty's workshop granted me more community and motivation than writing in solitude gives me in a year. The electricity of one of the workshop writing prompts ended up inspiring my full-length book The Lumberjack’s Dove which went on to win the National Poetry Series. Suffice to say, my life would be much different and much less bountiful had I never wandered in the doors of this workshop.
- GennaRose Nethercott, The Lumberjack’s Dove (Harper Collins)
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Marty's workshop is without question, the most valuable outside influence on my work as a poet and editor. I'm incredibly fortunate to have found this space, and with it, a loving poetry family, of new and experienced writers, who are unified by Marty's imaginative prompts, her care, and her constant push for each of us to discover our truest voice.
- Ben Clark, if you turn around I will turn around (Thoughtcrime Press), Reasons to Leave the Slaughter (Write Bloody Publishing)