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Literary Birding: Writing About Birds

Julie Poole

Open Genre | Online
Thursday, 7:00—9:00pm
September 23rd

$45.00 – $90.00

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The fees from ABC’s adult writing workshops subsidize our free writing programs for kids, whose work is collected in a yearly anthology, and pay our adult workshop instructors. A limited number of seats in each class are reserved for scholarships, which cover 100% of tuition-fees and are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. All are welcome, and we especially encourage BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ writers to apply.

This class will feature birds in all their symbolic and mythic glory, from Gerard Manley Hopkin’s falcons to Hiroko Oyamada’s Factory Shags (an imaginary bird.) We will do a little birding through literature and then spend some in-class time writing about birds, allowing time at the end to share.

This Austin Bat Cave adult writing workshop is open to writers of all levels and is limited to 30 students.

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About the Instructor

Julie Poole

Julie Poole was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from The University of Texas at Austin. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Keene Prize for Literature. Her first book of poems, Bright Specimen, was inspired by the Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center at UT Austin and published by Deep Vellum in 2021. She has received fellowship support from the James A. Michener Center and participated in residencies at 100 West, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Yaddo. Her poems and essays have appeared in CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Poet Lore, Cold Mountain Review, HuffPost, and elsewhere. She lives in Austin with her growing collection of found butterflies.

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