Registration opens:
August 01st, 2026

Community Writing Workshops with EWU Writing Students

For Prose

A critiquing writing workshop led by students from EWU's MFA Program in Writing. The focus of this workshop is prose.

Hosted by Eastern Washington University MFA students, this workshop promises to provide a space for any writer to develop their practice. Open to writers of all abilities and backgrounds. 

This workshop is for writers of prose, fiction and non-fiction alike. Please note the MFA students will also be teaching a five-week course for poetry that begins on October 5th.

About the Presenters: 

Sophia McLain is a writer from Arkansas and the fiction editor for Willow Springs magazine. She is in her second-year as a fiction student in the MFA at EWU program.

Elsa Cruz is a second-year fiction student in the MFA program at EWU, where she also teaches English. Her fiction often focuses on nature, especially animals. 

Rose DePaolo is a poet, mother, and nature lover from Spokane where she lives with her partner, children and dogs. She is a second-year poetry student in the MFA program at EWU where she also teaches English.

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