Current & Upcoming
Workshops & Generative Circles

Offered through the Soul Bone℠ Literary Center

Soul Bone℠ intersects writing with creative process, spirituality, social justice, and healing in tiny, winged courses that lift the spirit. Our Literary Center workshops and prompt circles are offered synchronously online via Zoom with Eventbrite registration. Each course comes with a prompt handout. Please be in touch with us at soulboneliterary@gmail.com.

Our Fall ‘23 offerings will start up in October or November - thank you for your patience while we are onboarding our semester and planning our next festival.

Soul Bone℠ Calendar

Fall ’24 Offerings

MIU MFA Open House classes and special events offered in collaboration with Soul Bone℠, the last two also in collaboration with MIU’s undergraduate creative process class taught by Clint Martin. You can click the images below to go to the Eventpages in Eventbrite. Find the entire collection here. It is cross-listed with our MIU MFA in Creative Writing Fall Open House page for wider exposure. We would love for you to join us for these free, online events open to the public!

MIU, in collaboration with the Weekly Muse and Soul Bone℠, Presents:

October 25, 2024
You can read up on this event further here.

Welcome to our Soul Bone℠ Literary Festival for Fall ‘24. Please join us for another MIU MFA Residency Showcase with lots of free literary events offered by alumni and faculty of the MIU MFA in Creative Writing and a few very special guests. Our festivals are free, online, and open to the public. Donations are very much appreciated and warmly welcomed! The event registration pages in Eventbrite include a donation option. We will use all donations to sponsor and make possible more free events in the future. We hope to see you soon!

Spring ’24 Offerings

Talk & Readings: Short Prose Forms: A Guided Tour with Alan Ziegler

Many prose poems are indistinguishable from short-short stories; brief essays from prose poems; and fragments from prose poems and brief essays. Some authors eschew genre and refer to their pieces generically as texts or works. Short prose forms may be impossible to define but they are fascinating to talk about. We will consider a wide range of forms, approaches, and styles, spanning the last 185 years (with some precursors) from a variety of authors, languages, and time periods. In addition to works in English, Alan Ziegler will read translations from the French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other languages. He will also incorporate readings of his own work.

This evening is the sequel to Alan Ziegler's Spring '24 festival and residency master class on the same topic, which was highly popular. Those of you who did not receive the handout the first time will receive a handout during the event this time.

Alan Ziegler is the editor of Short: An International Anthology of 500 Years of Short-Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms (Persea Books). His other books include Love At First Sight: An Alan Ziegler Reader; The Swan Song of Vaudeville: Tales and Takes (with an introduction by Richard Howard); The Green Grass of Flatbush (winner of the Word Beat Fiction Book Award, selected by George Plimpton); So Much To Do (poems); The Writing Workshop, Volumes I and II; and The Writing Workshop Note Book. His work has appeared in such places as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Tin House. He is Professor of Writing and Director of Pedagogy at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he has received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching and was chair of the Writing Program. His cross-genre memoir(ish) Based on a True Life will appear in the Fall of 2024. He contributes frequently to http://tinyurl.com/Best-American-Poetry.

Publishing: Unlocking the Mysteries with Susanne Paola Antonetta

What do literary agents do? What is the right way to submit to a literary journal? What's a "hybrid" press? How to create a publishing plan?

Susanne Paola Antonetta gives a helpful overview of publishing in literary magazines and more, covering all you need to know to get started. While the literary market is in the foreground for creative writers in any genre (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrids), other types of publication are also covered. The session is a presentation followed by a Q & A.

Susanne Paola Antonetta has published nonfiction including The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here, Make Me a Mother, A Mind Apart: Travels in the Neurodiverse, and Body Toxic. Her new book, The Devil’s Castle, is forthcoming. Her grants and awards include a New York Times Notable Book, an American Book Award, Ken Johnson/Nami award, a Pushcart, a finalist for poetry’s Lenore Marshall Award, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and other agencies. She also edits the Bellingham Review.

Spring ’24 Festival

Summer ’23 Offerings

Soul Bone℠ Literary Center Offerings, Summer 2023 (Eventbrite)
Soul Bone℠ Literary Festival, Fall 2023: Aug. 21 - Sept. 3

Banner art and illustration below: Jitske Wadman
Logo design: Aliyah Warwick
Art used in event posters: Sonja Rosing

Testimonials

"Every single event [of the Soul Bone Literary Festival] influenced my thinking about my own work. Right out of the gate with Nynke and Jennifer. Holy mother of all things beautiful! I was never so excited and proud to have these two women as my mentors and teachers. I remember after I heard each of them read their poems, I thought 'I hit the jack pot of professionalism!' Immediately, they opened the door of vulnerability for all the students and participants. After that, I felt there was no holding back the flood gates that wished to pour from me." - J. S.

"You two made a fabulous team! Your master workshops on Writing the Wound and Writing toward Healing inspired me to create my own poem concerning a traumatic incident. I had trouble writing about it, but this time, with your positivity and support, I came up with something. I think what really did the trick was y’all saying that all of us have different traumas and it’s ok to feel how we feel. I am so grateful for your supportive space and your grace. You both have an incredible creative energy that is phenomenal to be around (even on Zoom)." - J. G.

”You really create something special and allow something special to be created. Thank you, and blessings on all the work you are doing.” - I. N.

”I hope to attend your future workshops, which are simply fabulous. You are such brilliant tutors. The poems you share and the prompts are all excellent. Thank you for your kindness.” - P. F.

You can read more testimonials for Nynke Passi on her website here.

Other Summer ’23 Offerings by Jennifer & Nynke