Writing Workshop: Spark Your Creativity (Hybrid)

Registration Required. Email programs@ebpl.org to register.

Just as fire needs a spark, imagination needs to be kindled. Nurture your creative impulses with a series of fun, innovative exercises and prompts that use writing as a means of expression and exploration. Be prepared to surprise yourself!

April Darcy‘s fiction can be found in Shenandoah, where she was awarded the Shenandoah River Fiction Prize, and her nonfiction can be found in North American Review, where she was a finalist for the Torch Nonfiction Prize. She has been shortlisted for Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers and Family Matters competitions; the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize; the Iowa Review Nonfiction Prize, judged by Wayne Koestenbaum; and the Sonora Review Nonfiction Prize, judged by Jo Ann Beard. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Napa Valley Writers Conference and the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and was awarded a 2020 Elizabeth George Foundation grant. In 2022, she received a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. April holds an MFA in writing and literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars.