Event
6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
The 2026 Novel Writing, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Memoir, and Fiction Writing Project Information Session 1

Presenters
Peter Geye
Peter Geye received his MFA from the University of New Orleans and his PhD from Western Michigan University, where he was editor of Third Coast. Geye is the author of the award-winning novels Safe from the Sea; The Lighthouse Road; Wintering, winner of the Minnesota Book Award; and Northernmost
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신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin
신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin is a Korean-born creative nonfiction writer, freelance arts journalist, fiction writer, poet, editor, and children’s book author. She is the author of the new experimental poetry/prose book Six Tones of Water co-authored with Vi Khi Nao; The Wet Hex, which won the Society of
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Kelly Sundberg
Kelly Sundberg 's memoir, Goodbye, Sweet Girl , was published by HarperCollins in 2018. Her essays have appeared in a variety of venues, including Guernica , Gulf Coast, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, The New York Times, and others . Her essay "It Will Look Like A Sunset" was anthologized in Best
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Junauda Petrus
Junauda Petrus is a writer, pleasure activist, filmmaker and performance artist, born on Dakota land of Black-Caribbean descent. Her work centers around wildness, queerness, Black-diasporic-futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, shimmer and liberation. Her debut novel, The Stars and the Blackness
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Heid E. Erdrich
Heid E. Erdrich has authored several poetry collections, including Little Big Bully, a National Poetry Series winner. Erdrich edited New Poets of Native Nations anthology from Graywolf Press and has received many honors, including the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the
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Online—Zoom Classroom
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Loft Year-Long Writing Project Info Session orange letterings against beige background with butterflies

If you're curious about the Loft's Year-Long Writing Project in Novel Writing with Peter Geye, Creative Nonfiction with Sun Yung Shin, Memoir with Kelly Sundberg, Poetry with Heid E. Erdrich, or Fiction with Junauda Petrus, and which is right for you, come to this informal information session to find out more! In this session, we'll discuss the each of the programs, the year ahead, and how your project may fit in. The teaching mentors of each cohort will share an overview about what to expect in their cohort. It is free and open to the public, and it takes place online, via Zoom. This will be a recorded event. Please pre-register for this event.

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Artists
Peter Geye
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신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin
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Kelly Sundberg
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Junauda Petrus
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Heid E. Erdrich
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