Part I: The Creative Writing Workshop

6 in-person weekly workshops during March - April at Morristown Library and Baird Center, South Orange.

To Register for all 6 sessions send an email to info@artsbythepeople.org with Creative Writing Workshop / Morristown or South Orange in the Subject Line.

Morristown Dates: 7-8:30pm; March 11, 18, 25, April 8, 15, 29
South Orange Dates: 7-8:30pm; April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2, 9

Part II: Summer Residency - July 13, 9AM-3PM

Summer residency in New Jersey at Madison Community Arts Center focusing on the art of ekphrastic writing.
With Tamar Jacobs

Residency participants will have their writing in a full color compilation book alongside movement videos from our 10 Dancers-in-Residence.
- Participants must commit to the residency date.
- In-person Book Launch in October.
- $250 prize awarded to 2 writers for the most creative ekphrastic piece written during the residency.
- The Arts center is a 5 minute walk from NJ Transit Madison Station.

Interested? Send an email to info@artsbythepeople.org with Summer Residency in the subject line. Include your name, bio, 3 sample poems or 2 prose pieces under 2500 words. Also include if you have participated in any ABTP programs currently or in the past. We’d like to know!
Space is limited to 10 writers.

Submissions are due by April 30, 2024.

To purchase a copy of our 2023 Residency Book, LOOK UP! Click here.

The Writing LAB is an ARTS By The People project made possible by a generous grant from The Santiago Abut Foundation, in loving memory of Santiago Abut. With the support of The Santiago Abut Foundation all parts of The Writing LAB are free and open to the public.