VERO BEACH — A free Teen Writer’s Workshop will be held on Saturday, August 20 at the Environmental Learning Center from 1 to 4 p.m. The Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation, Inc. and College Application Consultants will present Tapping into the Wild Mind: How to Make Your Writing Come Alive, with poet and Miami-Dade College professor Michael Hettich.
Dr. Hettich, who recently won the prestigious Swan Scythe Press Chapbook competition, will be leading this exciting poetry workshop for student writers, grades 9-12. Hettich hopes that students will bring a poem of their own to work on at this free three-hour workshop.
The workshop is underwritten by College Application Consultants, Inc. and Charlotte Terry
Real Estate Group of Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Guest Writer: Michael Hettich was one of the three presenting poets last spring at the Annual Poetry and Barbecue event.
Hettich teaches English and Creative Writing at Miami Dade College. His latest work of poetry, Like Happiness, was published last year by Anhinga Press and was his 13th collection of poetry. He is the winner of two Florida Individual Artists Fellowships, and will publish a new book this fall, The Animals Beyond Us, along with a chapbook out this fall, The Measured Breathing, which won this year’s Swan Scythe Chapbook Competition.
To register, send an e-mail to lrjfoundation@gmail.com or call 772-569-6718.