Pay what you will: venmo to “@Diana-Goetsch” / PayPal to diana@janestreet.org 

This week’s theme: “Permission to Suck: The Benefits of Bad Writing” Diana Goetsch is teaming with Paragraph Writers Workspace to offer another session of a course she’s taught at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and around the U.S. Simply put, free-writing is the act of surprising ourselves on the page. When engaged in as a discipline, it can transform us as writers.

* You can participate for free, or pay what you want. Paragraph will make a donation on the behalf of Community Members who attend.

Register here! (All participants must register before).

Diana Goetsch is the author of eight collections of poems, dozens of nonfiction features and articles, and is currently at work on a memoir forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her writing has appeared in leading journals, anthologies and newspapers including The New Yorker, Poetry, Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship at The New School, and the Donald Murray prize for writing pedagogy. Her website is www.dianagoetsch.com