Orlando Word Lab

This is a writing workshop that will focus on learning a new technique or method each month. A guest speaker will share a sample of their work and then give a writing prompt for everyone to follow.

We'll all write for 30 minutes, and then share our work with others, and receive helpful suggestions about what to improve. Bring your laptops, tablets, or notebook and pen, and a willingness to learn.

We will meet on Wednesday, May 24 at the Winter Park Public Library at 7:00 PM. You can also join via Zoom at https://bit.ly/OWL052023.

This month, we will learn Personal Essay Writing from a past instructor, Yolande Clark-Jackson.

Learn how to effectively craft short memoir pieces that combine your past experience with your thoughts on a particular topic. This workshop will also include how to generate ideas for essays and where to submit finished drafts.

Yolande Clark-Jackson is a multi-disciplinary storyteller and teaching artist. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and is an award-winning personal essayist and author of the award-winning children’s book, Rocko's Big Launch. Her non-fiction essay “How You Get There” was among the top twelve awarded in the 2021 Winning Writers contest. She is a 2021 Eckerd College McCartt Fellowship awardee, and one of seven artists awarded the 2022 James Weldon Johnson Foundation artist-in-residency fellowship. Her nonfiction writing can be found in The HuffPost personal, Sisters Newsletter from AARP, *Care.com*, Parents, The University of Arizona’s Poetry Center, the Chicken Soup for Soul: I’m Speaking Now anthology, and many others.