The Free Gen with Lauren Childs

Co-sponsored by PorchLight and Iowa City Poetry, the Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all income levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests. It has been an adventure, and we are continually inspired by the creative concentration of participants, and the powerful beginnings the workshop generates.

Lauren Lilia Childs is a first-year MFA candidate in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, she developed a keen curiosity in intuition and the natural world at a young age and started journaling before she could spell. Her years of training in sense memory and acting at…