Events
Past Events:
Event facilitated by:
CRAFT Literary 2025 Winter Salon
February 20th, 2025, 4-5 p.m. PST / 7-8 p.m. EST on Zoom
Please join us for an hour of readings by award-winning authors!
The event is free and open to all interested, but please register here to receive the link.
Featured Reader: ’Pemi Aguda, Author of Ghostroots, Finalist for the National Book Award. Guest Judge for the CRAFT 2025 Novelette Print Prize.
Additional virtual salon readers will include recent contributors:
H. B. Asari, Jen Colclough, and Catherine McNamara.
Editor in Chief Courtney Harler will moderate the event.
Additional details provided upon registration.
Event facilitated by:
Feature Poet in Vivid Illusion's Plum Poetry Series
February 4th, 2025, 7-10 p.m. EST at Maxwell's Plum in Halifax, NS.
The evening will feature readings from several poets, a poetry workshop, and merch table featuring paintings by Feature Poet Jen Colclough.
Get tickets here. (Apply discount code JENWRITES at checkout)
We hope to see you there!
[Workshop] Abstract Ekphrasis: Writing the Sensory
Unleash your creative intuition through the abstract nature of ekphrastic poetry at this generative writing workshop facilitated by Canadian Poet Jen Colclough and American Poet Cara Morgan (author of Dear Diseased Body). Learn the history of ekphrasis, connect with your unique creative voice, and start an ekphrastic piece of your own.
💫 Sunday Dec 29th, 2024 at 6pm EST (7pm AST)
💫 Sliding scale $10-15, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds*
💫Virtual via Google Meet
*All proceeds benefit the Mabel Wadsworth Center in Bangor, Maine. The Mabel Wadsworth Center is an independent, non-profit health center that provides high-quality, compassionate, and non-judgmental health care to people of all genders in Maine.
[Workshop] Write Like it's 1917
Do you lust after fine stationery? Have you ever thought about retreating to a small cottage near the sea to ease your melancholia? Do you wish to inform your friend that ‘Netherfield Hall is let at last’ in the most dramatic way possible? If so, come to my free writing workshop at 7:00pm, Feb. 21, 2024 at An Drochaid in Mhàbu, Cape Breton. We’ll be discussing Victorian letter writing, decorum, and how to add a touch of drama to your correspondence.
[Public Presentation] "Thucydides Girl"
You are warmly welcome to join us for our first ever Shannon Residency Artist Presentation:
Wednesday, January 31, 2024 @ 7pm, Beinn Mhàbu.
Admission is free ~ Come on out and meet Jen Colclough. She will be discussing “The Thucydides Girl”: Writing about Mental Health, Community, and Resistance in WWI.
And in honour of Robbie Burns Day, music, haggis, and tea to follow.