UConn-Torrington Offers

Writing Workshops

TORRINGTON — All area high school students are invited to attend “21st Century Voices,” a series of writing workshops offered by the Litchfield County Writers Project (LCWP) on Saturday, May 12, from 9:30 am to 3 pm, at the UConn-Torrington campus, 855 University Drive in Torrington.

Memoir writing, performance poetry, and social issues are some of the workshops offered. If you want to write your personal story, you will find many workshop opportunities. The event will feature a keynote address by the campus director and poet, Adriane Lyon. Three workshop opportunities will be available in the morning: “Writing Nature Poetry,” Jim Scrimgeour; “Telling Our Stories,” Sharon Charde; and “Social/Political Issue Poetry,” Ameen Storm. Three workshop opportunities will take place in the afternoon: “Finding Your Own Voice with Poetry,” Margaret Gardener; “Composing on the Tongue/Performance Poetry,” Davyne Verstandig; and “Reworking the Written Word,” Cheryl Panosian Haddad.

Following the keynote address, morning workshops will run from 10 am to noon; afternoon workshops from 1 to 2:30 pm. A free lunch will be provided from noon to 1 pm, due to a generous grant from the Torrington Foundation of Public Giving. At 2:30 pm, an open mike performance will take place in the courtyard and will offer the opportunity for students to perform the work they’ve created during the course of the day.

There is no fee for this event. For registration, information about, or directions to the “21st Century Voices” program, students should call in their reservations for the workshop at 860-626-6800 by May 1.