This free live writing workshop will be offered hybrid, allowing you to join virtually or in person. To join virtually, please register HERE. After you register, the Zoom link will be automatically sent to you. To join in person, meet us on the appointed hour at PorchLight Literary Arts Center, 1019 Washington Street in Iowa City. Everyone’s welcome!

Margaret MacInnis holds MFA degrees from the University of Iowa (NWP ’09) and Queens University of Charlotte (’04). Her recent work appears or is forthcoming in Brevity, Diagram, Fifty-Word Stories, Fractured Literary, Ghost Parachute, Mutha Magazine, The Rye Whiskey Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, and Tiny Molecules. Longer work appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast Review, Mid-American Review, River Teeth, Tampa Review and elsewhere. Nominated for three Pushcart prizes, she has received notable distinction in Best American Essays (2007, 2009, & 2011) and Best American Non-Required Reading (2009). Margaret was the 2007 William Raney Scholar in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and has served on the Prose Admissions Committee for the conference. She has been a VCCA Fellow, both in Virginia and France, and was in residence at the Kimmel Nelson Center for the Arts. She has taught Introduction to Creative Nonfiction at the University of Iowa, where she also served as an Editorial Assistant at The Iowa Review. She currently tutors in the Writing Center at Kirkwood Community College. Since 2010 Margaret has been raising a daughter and working as Marilynne Robinson’s personal assistant.