Write Your Year - Writing Workshop 2025
There’s a diverse and inviting tradition of daily writing as a way to document a year – or a life! In this generative writing workshop series we’ll look at (and create!) a variety of forms of writing meant to be used as a daily or weekly practice in the year ahead.
Play with poetry, flash fiction, simple sentences, and other forms of creative writing to test the format you might want to return to throughout the year. We’ll look at Ross Gay’s Book of Delights, Chris La Tray’s One Sentence Journal, haiku by Richard Wright, and more. We’ll experiment with a variety of formats and prompts to kickstart a year-long writing practice that will expand your skills and build a substantial body of work.
Whether you want to write a short poem every day or a longer essay once a month, committing to a regular practice will deepen your experience as a writer and your experience of your year!
January 21 is the first in a quarterly workshop series that will run through 2025. Join us for one, two, three, or all four workshops. (Details on each quarterly workshop in this series below.)
PLAY - Tuesday, January 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
PRACTICE - Tuesday, April 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
ITERATE -Tuesday, July 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
SHARE - Tuesday, October 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
At OffCenter Community Arts Project, 808 Park Ave SW, ABQ.
These workshops are part of our 2025 Supporter Series, a fundraiser for OffCenter Arts’ free community art programs. This means (unlike our other classes which all have tiered pricing including free options) pricing is set at one price. We offer a limited number of free spots for classes in this fundraiser series. Email info@offcenterarts.org to sign up for a free class spot.
Single workshop: $30
Sign up for the three remaining workshops together: $90
There’s a diverse and inviting tradition of daily writing as a way to document a year – or a life! In this generative writing workshop series we’ll look at (and create!) a variety of forms of writing meant to be used as a daily or weekly practice in the year ahead.
Play with poetry, flash fiction, simple sentences, and other forms of creative writing to test the format you might want to return to throughout the year. We’ll look at Ross Gay’s Book of Delights, Chris La Tray’s One Sentence Journal, haiku by Richard Wright, and more. We’ll experiment with a variety of formats and prompts to kickstart a year-long writing practice that will expand your skills and build a substantial body of work.
Whether you want to write a short poem every day or a longer essay once a month, committing to a regular practice will deepen your experience as a writer and your experience of your year!
January 21 is the first in a quarterly workshop series that will run through 2025. Join us for one, two, three, or all four workshops. (Details on each quarterly workshop in this series below.)
PLAY - Tuesday, January 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
PRACTICE - Tuesday, April 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
ITERATE -Tuesday, July 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
SHARE - Tuesday, October 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
At OffCenter Community Arts Project, 808 Park Ave SW, ABQ.
These workshops are part of our 2025 Supporter Series, a fundraiser for OffCenter Arts’ free community art programs. This means (unlike our other classes which all have tiered pricing including free options) pricing is set at one price. We offer a limited number of free spots for classes in this fundraiser series. Email info@offcenterarts.org to sign up for a free class spot.
Single workshop: $30
Sign up for the three remaining workshops together: $90
There’s a diverse and inviting tradition of daily writing as a way to document a year – or a life! In this generative writing workshop series we’ll look at (and create!) a variety of forms of writing meant to be used as a daily or weekly practice in the year ahead.
Play with poetry, flash fiction, simple sentences, and other forms of creative writing to test the format you might want to return to throughout the year. We’ll look at Ross Gay’s Book of Delights, Chris La Tray’s One Sentence Journal, haiku by Richard Wright, and more. We’ll experiment with a variety of formats and prompts to kickstart a year-long writing practice that will expand your skills and build a substantial body of work.
Whether you want to write a short poem every day or a longer essay once a month, committing to a regular practice will deepen your experience as a writer and your experience of your year!
January 21 is the first in a quarterly workshop series that will run through 2025. Join us for one, two, three, or all four workshops. (Details on each quarterly workshop in this series below.)
PLAY - Tuesday, January 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
PRACTICE - Tuesday, April 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
ITERATE -Tuesday, July 15, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
SHARE - Tuesday, October 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
At OffCenter Community Arts Project, 808 Park Ave SW, ABQ.
These workshops are part of our 2025 Supporter Series, a fundraiser for OffCenter Arts’ free community art programs. This means (unlike our other classes which all have tiered pricing including free options) pricing is set at one price. We offer a limited number of free spots for classes in this fundraiser series. Email info@offcenterarts.org to sign up for a free class spot.
Single workshop: $30
Sign up for the three remaining workshops together: $90
Teacher bio: Mika Maloney is a writer and artist based in Albuquerque, NM. She has written two chapbooks of poetry, ripscape (2007) and Spring Break (2019), and hosted Small Batch Poetry on TPG Radio (2022). She currently teaches writing workshops at OffCenter Community Arts Project, where she also works as the executive director. Mika’s playful art practice crosses a variety of mediums, including painting and fiber art. She finds inspiration in the rich histories of quilting, design, and decorative arts that have brought beauty to utilitarian objects throughout human history. Her current writing project is a prose poem hybrid experiment exploring themes of home, money, home buying, home making, debt, marriage, partnership, and community; drawing from historical lending practices, the current housing crisis, and pretty much every movie Julia Roberts has been in.
You’re invited to commit to a fun year of writing and sign up for all four workshops! Or, pick and chose the ones that work best for you. Although the workshops will reference and build on each other, they can also be taken individually.
January 21: PLAY: experiment with different formats and methods; look at a variety of examples to use as prompts; explore which format and cadence might work best for your 2025 writing practice.
April 15: PRACTICE: Dive deeper into (or re-ignite!) your regular writing practice! Explore a variety of tools to help keep you engaged and writing regularly. We’ll collaborate and create prompts to take back to your own writing practice.
July 15: ITERATE: Staying committed to a regular creative practice includes being able to shift and adjust that commitment to stay engaged. In this workshop, we’ll use tools to check what is working with your writing practice and what isn’t. We’ll explore new writing prompts and examples to inspire changes to your writing pace and format.
October 21: SHARE: After months of regular writing, prepare your words to be ready to share! In this workshop, we’ll consider what work to share and what not to share and discuss risks and values for sharing your work. We’ll look at a variety of ways to share your work, from chapbooks, to readings, online or in conjunction with other media. Learn tools to start editing and refining your work. We’ll also have a chance to share some of what we’ve written over the past several months!
All materials provided. No experience necessary.
Unless otherwise specified ages 16+ are welcome to attend OffCenter classes independently. Students age 12 to 15 must be accompanied by an adult (18+) who stays with them for the duration of the class. We highly recommend that the accompanying adult register and participate in the class as well. Individual classes may have additional age or experience requirements. This class is for ages 16 and up.