SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — To celebrate the publication of “52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for the Creative Writer,” Suzanne Roberts will be giving a creative writing workshop on Getting Unstuck and Making Inspiration.
Drawing from more than thirty years of creative writing teaching experience, Roberts offers down-to-earth, witty, and wise straight talk about writing and the writing life, accessible craft discussions, and thought-provoking twenty-minute genre-crossing writing prompts in this new creative writing craft book. This multi-genre approach is arranged by theme, including memory, family and friends, writing the body, love and lust, death and grief, nature and the environment, stories of shame, and magic and myth, along with discussions of revision and editing, building writing community, and publishing.
The chapters offer a short discussion of each theme, friendly pep talks, accessible craft tips, a selection of 35 poems, stories, and essays from a diverse array of contemporary writers, and, of course, the writing prompts. Featured authors include Camille T. Dungy, Carolyn Forché, Gina Frangello, Linda LeGarde Grover, Lisa Lee Herrick, Major Jackson, Rebecca Makkai, Eva Saulitis, Patricia Smith, Stacey Waite, Lidia Yuknavitch, among many others, with writing advice of their own. 52 Writing Prompts will encourage and motivate both aspiring and established writers.
Clare Frank, author of Burnt: A Memoir of Fighting Fire and Just One More Game: A Pickleball Quest, says, “As a former student of the author, I could hear her voice throughout 52 Writing Prompts—a voice that is encouraging and funny but also insightful and demanding.”
The workshop will be held on Tuesday, September 29, from 5–6:30 p.m. Space is limited to 11 participants; save a spot by preordering 52 Writing Prompts directly from Cuppa Tahoe (530-600-0433). Limited to 11 participants. Although the workshop is free with the purchase of 52 Writing Prompts from Cuppa Tahoe, any other donations will go to the Tahoe Wildlife Care.
Suzanne Roberts’ other award-winning books include Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel, Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award) and four collections of poetry. Named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic’s Traveler magazine, Roberts’ work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Best Women’s Travel Writing, New York Times, National Geographic, CNN, Brevity, and elsewhere. She holds a doctorate in Literature and the Environment from the University of Nevada-Reno, teaches for the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at UNR-Tahoe, and lives in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
