Write Wilmington

virtual writing sessions on Friday mornings // space for community // place for prompts and promptings // founded by Sayantani Dasgupta Asso. Prof. at UNCW CRW

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We hope everyone had a wonderful summer! Write Wilmington is back for another season! We are so excited to announce this Fall’s theme, Nine Stories!

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Please register through the link in our bio, and stay tuned for more announcements!

Happy Writing!

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Happy January everyone! Write Wilmington is back for its eighth season, and we are so excited to announce our new theme, Nine Poems! (cont)

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Write Wilmington provides free online writing workshops on Fridays at 9 a.m. EST.  If this is your first time seeing us, we’re so excited to meet you. If you’re a Write Wilmington veteran, we’re thrilled to have you again! This season runs from February 7th to April 18th.

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Tonight! Join us at The Fuzzy Needle Books and Records Store and hear from seven wonderful artists around the Wilmington Community!

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Meghann Blackman is a 2024 graduate of UNC-Wilmington's MFA program. Currently, she's the fourth grade lead teacher at Friends School of Wilmington and reads for Ecotone Magazine.

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Misha Rai is Contributing Editor of the Kenyon Review and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Sewanee: The University of the South.

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Join us this Friday for a writing session with Misha Rai!

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Sumana Roy is the author of two works of nonfiction, How I Became a Tree and Provincials, as well as Missing: A Novel, My Mother’s Lover, and Other Stories, and two collections of poems, Out of Syllabus and VIP: Very Important Plant.

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Join us this Friday for a free, virtual writing session with Sumana Roy!

Register through the link in bio if you haven’t already!

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Join us this Friday for a writing session with editor of Chautauqua, Jill Gerard!

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Shawna Kenney is an award-winning author and arts journalist. She is also a Contributing Editor with Narratively Magazine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The LA Weekly, the Saatchi Gallery, Vice, Playboy, Brevity and more.

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Join us for a writing session this Friday with Shawna Kenny!

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Her first novel, The Liar’s Weave, was shortlisted for the Prabha Kaitan’s Woman’s Voice Award. She has been part of the Sangam House International Writers’ Residency (India) and was British Council Writer-in-Residence at Anglia Ruskin University (UK).

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Introducing our second instructor of the season, @TashanMehta !

Register through the link in bio to receive the zoom link. We hope to see you there!

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Tashan Mehta is a novelist whose interest lies in form and the fantastical. Her second novel, Mad Sisters of Esi, won the 2024 AutHer Award for Best Novel, the 2024 Subjective Chaos Kind of Award for Best Fantasy, and was on the 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List.

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Thank you all for attending today’s session! We had 72 total participants writing with us today—a record breaking number for Write Wilmington!

Thank you so much Michelle Donahue for a generative session and getting us thinking about our writerly obsessions!

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Michelle Donahue’s prose has been published in Shenandoah, About Place Journal, Passages North, among others, and has been supported by the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She holds a PhD in creative writing & literature from the University of Utah.

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Please join us this Friday, September 27, for our first workshop of the season with associate editor at Ecotone and assistant professor at UNC Wilmington, Michelle Donahue!

Please register for the session (link in bio) to receive a zoom link! We can’t wait to see you!

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If this is your first time seeing us, we’re so excited to meet you. If you’re a Write Wilmington veteran, we’re thrilled to have you again

Register through the link in our bio! We hope to see you soon!

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We hope everyone had a wonderful summer! Write Wilmington is back for another season! We are so excited to announce this Fall’s theme, Nine Stories!

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With a diverse array of instructors, generative writing time, and an emphasis on community, we hope you are as excited as we are for this instalment! This season runs September 27th-November 22nd, and meets every Friday at 9 a.m. EST on zoom!