You’re invited to sign up to attend this free live writing workshop. Now offered in person and online! To join virtually, please register HERE. After you register, the Zoom link will be automatically emailed to you. To join us in person, arrive at the appointed hour at PorchLight Literary Arts Center, 1019 E. Washington, Iowa City, Everyone’s welcome!
This month we are delighted to welcome Laura Johnson, Leslie Caton Frey, and Mary Kilburg, co-founding editors of Backchannels Journal. They will lead the session by offering an original prompt and time to write and share.
Laura Johnson is an MFA candidate at the University of New Orleans and is a graduate (BA, MA) of the University of Iowa. Laura’s work has appeared in Goat’s Milk Magazine, Thimble Literary Magazine, Prompt Press, and Wild Roof Journal, among others. She is a 2019 Best of Net Nominee. Laura’s chapbook, Memento Vivere (Cabin Bear Books), is available at laurajohnsonwriter.com and wherever you buy books.
Leslie Caton Frey lives and writes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her work appears in Wapsipinicon Almanac, Pank, Tupelo Quarterly, and was a notable in Best American Essays.
Mary Kilburg is an avid reader, writer and local performer who believes everyone has a story worth telling and should have a platform to share their story. She teaches English and is a Drama director/Speech coach at Metro High School in Cedar Rapids. She writes primarily memoir and poetry, as well as scripts for her students.
About Backchannels:
We are co-founding editors of Backchannels Journal. We founded the journal in 2019 and have published more than ten issues including a pandemic pop-up edition in March 2020, a small pop-up edition for Women's History Month in March 2022, a paid poetry contest in April 2021, and we have an all-LGBTQIA+ edition coming this June. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, personal essay, art, and photography.
We make every attempt to: thank all submitters, respond to all submitters, never charge a submission fee, work collaboratively with contributors in the editing process, and respond personally to all submitters.