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The Loft Literary Center

A Haven For Readers & Writers

The Loft believes that story, verse, and writing aren’t just nice things you put on a shelf, but are instead core to a full existence. At their best, they help us connect, entertain, mourn, protest, provoke, educate, and empathize. Join us—and find or share your story.

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The Loft offers far more than award-winning writing classes. Learn more about our latest offerings below.

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The Loft Presents: Sense of Adventure

Through this theme, the Loft invites readers and writers to explore something (anything) from a new perspective with an unexpected outcome. Join us for a celebration of adventure and a chance to explore, including a Big Ideas with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Carolyn Finney!

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Loft 2021 Winter Features Highlights

Winter at the Loft!

All programming at the Loft has shifted online until May 31, 2021. But we're still open, and we have a ton of new offerings this winter based on your feedback: Sense of Adventure; New Year, Fresh Start Classes; Feedback Classes; After School Classes; Pastries, Poetry and Prose; One-on-One Coaching; and more!

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One-on-One Coaching

Loft One-On-One Coaching

Meet one-on-one via video conference with a Loft coach and get your agenting, publishing, and other questions answered.

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Upcoming Classes

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Loft Classes Now Open

During this global health crisis, Loft creative writing classes take place entirely online. Some classes are offered via live video conferencing while others are offered in weekly, flexible segments. All classes are designed to help you reach your goals. Explore our upcoming offerings and find your next chance to learn, connect, and grow.

Classes starting from now until April 2021—for youth and adults—are now available.

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The Loft hosts numerous events throughout the year. Take a look at our upcoming offerings and plan your next visit.

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Sense of Adventure: Monsters and Creatures with Matthew Kessen

As part of the Loft's Sense of Adventure theme, we'll have a theoretical conversation around the foes and obstacles in many adventure stories: monsters and mythical creatures. Host Matthew Kessen will discuss these creatures and then answer hypothetical audience questions.

More Than A Single Story: Crossing Generational & Racial Lines

The Twin Cities has developed a complex intersectional culture between communities, organizations and artists of color. This panel presents two generations of collaborations between African American and Asian American literary artists. This panel will discuss what their collaborations can tell us about race in America—in the past, in the present and the future.

Big Ideas: Sense of Adventure with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Carolyn Finney

Many of us in Minnesota revel in the joys of getting outside but the "great outdoors" isn't necessarily as transcendent, as universal, or as one-size-fits-all as it's often been portrayed. Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Carolyn Finney join us for this Big Ideas conversation on the ways our racial identities shape our relationships to the natural world.

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Video Interview: Teaching Artist Jeff Pfeiffer

Jeff Pfeiffer is a playwright, screenwriter, and television writer with over 10 years experience in entertainment and writing. Pfeiffer’s credits include dramatic television, documentary, produced stage, and games. He holds an MFA in playwriting and is a member of the Writers Guild of America.

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What is Digital Storytelling?

What exactly is a digital story, and why might digital storytelling be of interest to writers? Digital stories can be any digital media that tell a story. We see these stories every day in advertising, corporate and nonprofit video, motion poems, and short personal documentaries.

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Meet Teaching Artist Halee Kirkwood

Halee Kirkwood is a descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and earned their MFA from Hamline University. Formerly a corporate mascot, janitor, and small-town library assistant, their work has been published in Up The Staircase Quarterly, Muzzle Magazine, and ctrl+v, among others.

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