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Saturday, 6/27
9-11am PT/12-2pm ET
ONLINE
What is a fragment? Why do unfinished things hold energy?
In this generative craft class, writers will use found materials such as photographs, letters, objects, and partial memories as portals into new writing. Through guided prompts, reflection, and sharing, participants will explore how images and fragments can unlock voice, emotion, memory, and unexpected story.
What happens when we write from the object’s voice, the hidden history, or what cannot be known? How might a fragment become a poem, essay, collage, memoir, or hybrid form?
Together we’ll consider how writers can work with what is missing, uncertain, or unfinished. Writers may bring a personal image or object, though materials will also be provided.
Participants will leave with fresh writing, repeatable prompts, and new ways to begin.
Instructor Bio: Kelly Macias is a writer, facilitator, and creative practitioner whose work explores memory, archives, and the stories we carry. Through writing, collage, and facilitation, she works with photographs, fragments, and everyday objects as portals into meaning and imagination.
Her practice is grounded in reflection, storytelling, and creative exploration, inviting participants to engage with personal and collective histories in new ways. Kelly has facilitated workshops on writing with found forms, embracing play during times of transition, and using archival materials to uncover family histories and shared meaning.
Her work has appeared in Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun, The Sunlight Press, and a range of literary journals and zines. Her chapbook, Everything is Falling Apart, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (Spring 2027). She shares her work on Substack at Toogood Stories and online at @kelmacias.
Saturday, 6/27
9-11am PT/12-2pm ET
ONLINE
What is a fragment? Why do unfinished things hold energy?
In this generative craft class, writers will use found materials such as photographs, letters, objects, and partial memories as portals into new writing. Through guided prompts, reflection, and sharing, participants will explore how images and fragments can unlock voice, emotion, memory, and unexpected story.
What happens when we write from the object’s voice, the hidden history, or what cannot be known? How might a fragment become a poem, essay, collage, memoir, or hybrid form?
Together we’ll consider how writers can work with what is missing, uncertain, or unfinished. Writers may bring a personal image or object, though materials will also be provided.
Participants will leave with fresh writing, repeatable prompts, and new ways to begin.
Instructor Bio: Kelly Macias is a writer, facilitator, and creative practitioner whose work explores memory, archives, and the stories we carry. Through writing, collage, and facilitation, she works with photographs, fragments, and everyday objects as portals into meaning and imagination.
Her practice is grounded in reflection, storytelling, and creative exploration, inviting participants to engage with personal and collective histories in new ways. Kelly has facilitated workshops on writing with found forms, embracing play during times of transition, and using archival materials to uncover family histories and shared meaning.
Her work has appeared in Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun, The Sunlight Press, and a range of literary journals and zines. Her chapbook, Everything is Falling Apart, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (Spring 2027). She shares her work on Substack at Toogood Stories and online at @kelmacias.