“Write Like a River: A Women’s Writing Workshop with Chivas Sandage” at Canton Public Library

            Canton Public Library is providing a great deal of inspiration to writers this summer by offering a series of workshops for adults and teens over the course of the summer and by holding a stand-alone workshop on Saturday, July 14, led by Chivas Sandage.  Join other writers from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM and learn to “write like a river.”

            Collinsville resident and writer Chivas Sandage will offer a creative writing workshop for women. If you are interested in poetry, essays, memoir, articles, fiction, lyrics, blogging and/or hybrid forms, you’ll feel right at home. All you need is a notebook and a pen! 

            According to Sandage, “The workshop is designed to support you exactly where you are in your relationship to your creative process.  Whether you write spontaneously or regularly, are thinking about or revising or completing a project, this workshop offers intriguing prompts; time to write; supportive, immediate feedback; discussion of voice and other aspects of craft; community and connection with other women writers; and the opportunity to sample ‘Write Like a River’ workshops.”

            Sandage facilitates a four-year-old women’s writing workshop that meets in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has a new workshop forming in Collinsville.

Her first book of poems, Hidden Drive, is forthcoming from Antrim House in August 2012. Her essays, poems and stories are forthcoming or have appeared in the Hartford Courant, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Hampshire Life Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Evergreen Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Morning Song: Poems for New Parents (St. Martin’s Press, ’11), Paradise Found: A Walking Tour of Northampton, Massachusetts through Poetry and Art (Levellers Press, ’12), Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience (Univ. of Iowa Press, ‘06) and Same-Sex Marriage: The Moral and Legal Debate (Prometheus Books, ‘04), amongst others. She taught composition and world literature at Westfield State University and  earned an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA from Bennington College. Currently, she’s at work on a memoir and a second collection of poems. She blogs at csandage.com and writelikeariver.com.

            The workshop is free; REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.  Canton Public Library is at 40 Dyer Avenue, Canton.  For information:  (860) 693-5800 or www.cantonpubliclibrary.org