March 18, 2025 | 3 – 6 p.m. | Register here
Join PMRCAA Resident Writer Margaret-Mary Sulentic Dowell for this hands-on, interactive writing workshop. During this workshop, participants will engage with photographs as creative stimuli, and experiment with three different writing genres: poetry, narrative, and argument/opinion.
Workshop Highlights:
Using Visual Stimuli as Inspiration: Margaret-Mary will project photographs focused on environmental issues and guide participants through creating “What-if” poems. These poems will create the foundation for their narrative and argumentative pieces.
Supporting Writing with Evidence: Attendees will get to support their written pieces with primary sources gathered from the Library of Congress website. Margaret-Mary will guide participants in using these sources to further adapt their poems and narratives, and inform their argument/opinion pieces.
About the Instructor:
Margaret-Mary (MM) Sulentic Dowell, PhD, is a Cecil “Pete” Taylor Endowed Professor of Literacy Leadership & Urban Education at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She is the Director of the LSU Writing Project & Coordinator of the PhD Program in Educational Leadership. During her residency MM is writing 2 children’s books on little known environmentalists.
Price: $10
