What does it take to lead a creative life every day? This workshop, co-sponsored by The Bookshop, will share ideas and perspectives for putting your own creativity first: How can writers best serve their own creative processes? Where do you go for inspiration? How important is community to our writing lives? And how can you create a life in this business of art? Workshop will include a talk, writing prompts with a group write-along, and a Q&A.

Jami will also explain the development of the worldwide literary movement #1000wordsofsummer, her wildly popular, grassroots movement which inspired a book-length extension of it. 1000 WORDS is about becoming and staying motivated, discovering yourself and your creative desires, and approaching your craft from a new direction. It features advice from more than fifty well-known writers, including New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners, and stars of the literary world, such as Rebecca Makkai, Roxane Gay, Lauren Groff, Celeste Ng, Meg Wolitzer, and Carmen Maria Machado.

Jami’s visit is supported in part by a grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership.