You’re a Genius All the Time

You’re a Genius All the Time

Poetry, Memories, and Short-short Stories from Your Inner Truth

Instructor: Jim Merrill – MFA, Writing & Poetics

5 one-hour sessions, 4:00 – 5:00pm

Tap into your creative mind and enhance your writing skills with this virtual course. Jim Merrill offers participants a broad menu of creative writing exercises to identify their reason to write, promote emotional literacy, and discover a writing niche that sparks personal creativity.  Participants learn tools to start writing fluidly in a variety of styles. Between discussion, peer critique, and the course materials, participants move toward using writing as a meditative method to convey personal experiences to others and build the confidence to begin independent projects.

Course limited to 10 participants (ages 16 and above)
$25.00 Registration (includes course materials)
Requires access to Zoom Video Conference and strong internet connection

About our Instructor

Jim Merrill is a former high school and university-level writing instructor with an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa Institute of Boulder, Colorado. He hails from the San Francisco East Bay community of Lafayette and his cultural influences lean heavily on the Berkeley free-speech, anti-war movement. He taught literacy in Los Angeles for the Labor Immigrant Assistance Program and at University of Colorado. He retired from Chemawa Indian School in 2014 and currently teaches Self-Expressive Writing 1 & 2 using his own writing guide “You’re a Genius All the Time” at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. He has published two volumes of poetry, “Blues Fall Down Like Rain” and “The Lust of Experience.”

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