The Loft will be closed this Friday January 23rd. ICE Out of Minnesota.

Spots are available for my Tuesday evening class at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social starting in February! The perfect antidote to these trying times. 💚🌳💚 #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #nature #journaling #mindfulness #environmental #writing loft.org/classes/eart...

Minnesota's literary community mourns Minneapolis mother and poet killed by ICE

Sherrie Fernandez-Williams (she/her) earned her MFA in Writing from Hamline University. She was a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a 2021 Black Voices in Children’s Literature winner. Author of Goddess of the Whole Self and Soft: A Memoir. Fernandez-Williams has published…

Did you see the Loft's video from our activity at Youth Pride Night at ‪@twincitiespride.bsky.social? It is pretty heartwarming to hear these joyful, fierce, proud young voices. ‬https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcX71HayXv0

There’s still a few spaces left in @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social ‘s summer youth writing intensive, for ages 14-18, the week of July 28! 🙌🏽✨ Access funds are available.

There are still some spots left in my half-day online workshop this Saturday on The Power of Retelling for @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social. If you're working on a retelling, thinking of working on one, or you just think they're neat, come join us!

Columbia, SC, will be a #poetry vortex this week! And I’m teaching poeTRYhealing for @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social too! Check out my Green Ink Substack and *bonus points* for reading to the end: a photo of my wife and me on our tenth wedding anniversary! 💜🏳️‍🌈🥰 open.substack.com/pub/cassiepr...

We have some rush pay-what-you-can tickets now available for Tuesday night's recording of the Writing Excuses podcast. This is a rare opportunity—join us! loft.org/events/writi...

There are twelve spots left in my online From Page to Publication class through @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social this summer! This thread explains more about what we’ll be covering (hint: everything!) loft.org/classes/8-we...

If anyone has novel excerpts in need of tender love and care, consider joining my virtual workshop w @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social starting Wednesday, June 18. The link's in the comments. DM me if you have any questions. And if you can, please spread the word 😊

I stopped writing poetry for years, then began online classes thru @hugohouse.bsky.social & @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social & elsewhere. In 2022 Ice Floe Press published my debut. Last nite I headlined a reading series w one of those teachers, poet @amiewhittemore.bsky.social. A wow moment for me!

Just announced: Two free storytelling workshops on June 29 and July 7 at Pillsbury House in remembrance of the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder. June 29 with @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social loft.org/events/georg... July 7 with @therafaeljohnson.bsky.social loft.org/events/georg...

Saturday, June 7th 4:00 PM at Open Book in Minneapolis. Free. A bevy of brilliant readers. ASL interpreted. Join us! @krisbigalk.bsky.social @heideerdrich.bsky.social @hawona.bsky.social @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social @raymondluczak.com @josinamm.bsky.social @slipfast.bsky.social @sagirahs.bsky.social

I’m excited to announce that I’m a Teaching Artist at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social and I’m really looking forward to teaching this class in June! #writing #amwriting #writers #BookSky #writingcommunity #poet #poets #poems #poetry #indie #publisher #teaching #writingclass #trama #traumainformed

Join us June 24 for this special live recording of @writingexcuses.bsky.social @nirele.bsky.social ‬ @dongwon.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @howardtayler.bsky.social ‪‪‪ loft.org/events/writi...

I'm so proud of this project, so lucky to be a very tiny part of it. @kwessel.bsky.social @commonerszine.bsky.social @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social

This emerged out of the Loft's Lit!Commons program. It is so beautiful.

Congratulations to Loft teaching artist @darklake.bsky.social, the 2025 George Garrett award winner at AWP! awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Cont...

We are here. I love that. Thanks for this and for joining us yesterday, Amanda. 💚🙏

Gearing up for the sold out @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social event tonight with Magers and Quinn.

We’re at Queer Writes today at the Machine Shop. Come say hi and spin the wheel for a blind date with a poem!

Poets and Writers: Want to renew your commitment to your writing? The @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social's LIt!Commons program is an innovative online community with talented teaching artists including @allisonwyss.bsky.social, @artcoulson.com, and more. Check us out! loft.thinkific.com/courses/lit-...

Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

Buy all banned books as presents

I am excited to be teaching an online class on metaphor at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social on Feb 1. If you're looking to improve your writing or better understand what you're reading, this one-day class is for you. Sign up here: loft.org/classes/unlo... #writingclass #writingcommunity

IT'S PERCIVAL EVERETT! Percival Everett, author of JAMES, is the winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction! "Hope is really no substitute for strategy." bookshop.org/a/169/978038...

Reminded of this from the Loft archive in 2017. Still so powerful and perhaps never more relevant. The Loft Presents: Danez Smith "Let America Be America Again" youtu.be/b6Im4b3kdfc

I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever. #books #reading #booksky #poetry

One of the benefits of working at the Loft is we get a poem of the week from our fellow staffer Lynn Casale. This is this week's: Appalachian Elegy (Sections 1-6) by bell hooks www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148751...

Novelist starter pack!

Creative nonfiction/personal essay writing starter pack!

Poetry starter pack!

Neurodivergent writer starter pack...

Comedy writing starter pack!

Happy Friday! Some starter packs to follow for all the writers out there.

Hey Writing Peeps, We're jumping in like everyone else. Who should we follow? (poem from Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/com...)