I’ll be leading a FREE creative writing/poetry workshop series for teens (~13-19) called WRITING THE FIRES. We’re coming up on a year since the LA wildfires that devastated the region in January. We have all been affected in some way. Please share with any teens who could benefit from a safe, supportive, creative space to reflect, process, express, and share their feelings and responses to the fires and the aftermath.

Climate change is upon us, and it’s today’s youth who will be inheriting the earth we leave to them.

I create nurturing, empowering containers for honesty, empathy, and learning to spread like fire, for beauty to build back from the ashes, for the alchemy of writing to leave us feeling changed.

There will be example poems, writing prompts, time to discuss, time to write, time to share, and even possibly time to get feedback. All participants will have the opportunity to be published in a subsequent anthology.

This event is offered through California Poets in the Schools and hosted in partnership with the Long Beach Public Library.

Dates and times:

-Tuesday Dec. 9, 4:30-6:30 pm at Mark Twain neighborhood library, 1401 E. Anaheim St.
-Thursday Jan. 8, 4:30-6:30 pm at Harte neighborhood library, 1595 W. Willow St.
-Thursday Jan. 15, 4:30-6:30 pm at Michelle Obama neighborhood library, 5870 Atlantic Ave.
-Saturday Jan. 17, 1-3 pm at Burnett neighborhood library, 560 E. Hill St.
-Tuesday Jan. 20, 4:30-6:30 pm at El Dorado neighborhood library, 2900 Studebaker Rd.
-Saturday Jan. 31, 1-3 pm at Billie Jean along main library, 200 W. Broadway

All locations in Long Beach. All Southern California teens are welcome to attend.

Join me for the first one this coming Tuesday!

Email questions to Nancy Woo at nancywoowriter@gmail.com

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