Events
River Writing is for everyone and we'd love to welcome you to the table. If the $40 tuition presents a barrier to your participation, please request sliding scale. If you'd like to dive in a bit deeper, consider joining a multi-week series. Click here to see our current schedule.
Dear Queer Lake with Nan Seymour
Saturday, May 31st 2-4pm
Mestizo Institute of Arts and Culture
95 South Rio Grande Street
In Person / Limited to 12 Participants
Everyone Welcome! (16+) Free with Registration
About Nan
About the Workshop
A generative writing workshop for anyone curious about relating to Great Salt Lake as queer kin. We’ll be writing to prompts from the poetry of Sarah May, Cael Crosby, and other queer poets from irreplaceable. No writing experience required. All you need is a little courage, some paper, and a pen!
About River Writing
We create a friendly place to practice by making community agreements. We read poetry aloud to find prompts and then write with pen and paper to say the truest things we can say. Before beginning, we agree to be kind, to keep each other’s confidence, and to listen to each other with undivided attention. We agree to take care of ourselves and to share responsibility for creating a welcoming space. Everyone is invited. We practice non-judgement by forgoing apology, critique, and praise. It can be challenging not to praise each other, but we choose to opt out temporarily in order to take respite from the culture of comparison. Sharing your writing is optional. Whether or not you choose to read, we respond simply by saying thank you.
Confluence: A Reading from the River on 9/18/25
Thursday, September 18th 6-7pm MST.
Meeting on Zoom.
Register to receive the link
Everyone is invited! (16+)
Join us for the sheer pleasure of listening!
About River Writing
We write together in circles shaped by community agreements. This is the practice: we read poetry aloud to find a prompt and then write with pen and paper to say the truest thing we can say. Before beginning, we agree to be kind, to keep each other’s confidence, and to listen to each other with undivided attention. We agree to take care of ourselves and to share responsibility for creating a welcoming space. Everyone is invited. We practice non-judgement by forgoing apology, critique, and praise. It can be a challenge not to praise, but we opt out temporarily in order to take respite from the culture of comparison. Whether or not a participant chooses to read, we respond simply by saying thank you.