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chaun webster event June 2026
Graywolf x Loft Book Launch: chaun webster's "Without Terminus: untraining an archive" | Jun 12

Join the Loft Literary Center and Graywolf Press for the launch of poet and nonfiction writer chaun webster's new memoir, "Without Terminus: untraining an archive."

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chaun webster craft seminar june 13
Craft Seminar—Against Arrival: Extending the Archive in Narrative Nonfiction | Jun 13

This generative craft workshop will utilize the methods that were instrumental in the composition of Without Terminus: untraining an archive, a book that traces the absences surrounding Webster’s maternal grandfather, his work as a Pullman porter, and the denial of his pension.

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In-Person
Single Session
Adaptation Lab: A Loft x FilmNorth Collaboration
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Price
$20.00
Arleta M. Little
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In-Person
Single Session
Scene: the Drama Builder! (for Ages 15-18)
Date
Time
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Robert Voedisch
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Online
Single Session
Divinatory Poetics: Using Tarot and Images to Generate Poems Intuitively–A Class for Writers of Color and Indigenous Writers
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Price
$37.00
$33.30 (Friend)
신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin
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In-Person
Single Session
Flash Nonfiction Generator
Date
Time
Saturday, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Lizzie Lawson
Lizzie Lawson
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8 Week
Writing the Illness Memoir: A Diversifying Writers Class
Date
Jun 15, 2026 - Aug 3, 2026
Time
Monday, 7 p.m. - Monday, 9 p.m.
Price
$296.00
$266.40 (Friend)
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Marianne Manzler
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Online
4 Week
Healing Through Writing
Date
Jun 16, 2026 - Jul 7, 2026
Time
Tuesday, 4 p.m. - Tuesday, 6 p.m.
Price
$148.00
$133.20 (Friend)
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Shama Shams
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In-Person
Single Session
Poetry of Place
Date
Time
Wednesday, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Price
$74.00
$66.60 (Friend)
Halee Kirkwood
Halee Kirkwood
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4 Week
Map Your Book
Date
Jun 17, 2026 - Jul 15, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 1 p.m. - Wednesday, 3 p.m.
Price
$148.00
$133.20 (Friend)
Rachel Werner
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Online
6 Week
Abolitionist Fiction
Date
Jun 17, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 6 p.m. - Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Price
$222.00
$199.80 (Friend)
Taiwana Shambley
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In-Person
4 Week
Writing in Nature: Ecopoetics, Environmental Writing and Explorations
Date
Jun 17, 2026 - Jul 15, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 6 p.m. - Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Price
$148.00
$133.20 (Friend)
James Ellis
James Ellis
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In-Person
Single Session
The Craft of Fiction: Tell, Don't Show
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Allison Wyss
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Online
Double Session
Hybrid Prose: Prose Poetry & Flash Creative Nonfiction
Date
Jun 20, 2026 - Jun 27, 2026
Time
Saturday, 1 p.m. - Saturday, 3 p.m.
Price
$74.00
$66.60 (Friend)
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Courtney Harler
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Single Session
poeTRYhealing
Date
Time
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Cassie Premo Steele
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In-Person
Single Session
The Craft of Fiction: Subtext and Subversion
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Allison Wyss
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In-Person
4 Week
The Poetry of Preoccupation
Date
Jul 8, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 6 p.m. - Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Price
$148.00
$133.20 (Friend)
Christopher Vaughan
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Single Session
Tell Me a Story
Date
Time
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
LeJuane Bowens
LeJuane Bowens
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Single Session
Not a Love Poem, But Something Close
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Asa Drake
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Single Session
The Craft of Fiction: Sense(s) and Sensibility
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Allison Wyss
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In-Person
Single Session
Narrative Healing Through Minnesota Resistance
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Price
$74.00
$66.60 (Friend)
JR Dawson
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Online
Single Session
Submitting and Publishing Your Writing to Literary Magazines
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
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Adrianna Jereb
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Online
Double Session
Publishing for Newbies
Date
Jul 22, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 1 p.m. - Wednesday, 3 p.m.
Price
$74.00
$66.60 (Friend)
Rachel Werner
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In-Person
Double Session
Resisting the Border: A Creative Nonfiction Class for Writers of Color and Indigenous Writers
Date
Jul 22, 2026 - Jul 29, 2026
Time
Wednesday, 6 p.m. - Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Price
$74.00
$66.60 (Friend)
Victoria Blanco
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Online
Single Session
Writing Poetry Under Traumatic Fascism
Date
Time
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Cassie Premo Steele
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In-Person
Single Session
The Poetics of Hope: Writing and Reading Poetry
Date
Time
Saturday, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Marlin M. Jenkins
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Online
Single Session
Take the Leap: Submit Your Writing to Magazines and Journals
Date
Time
Saturday, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Price
$55.50
$49.95 (Friend)
Tina Tocco