Brainstorming Across Genres with Author Ryan Thorpe, The Founder of Inkwell.

This session is exclusively for attendees of the Inkwell Retreat.
Dr. Ryan Thorpe will lead writing exercises focusing on the theme of brainstorming in three genres. Often creative writing genres are thinking of being separate and distinct, but when brainstormed in close proximity to each other, writers can see how learning about one artform can feed another. We will explore poetry and then shift into creative nonfiction and end up with a fiction assignment that will sound full of voice after borrowing from the word choice of poetry and the authorial authority of creative nonfiction. Participants will leave with a series of starts in separate genres that they can develop over the course of the retreat.
Dr. Ryan Thorpe is an associate teaching professor and teaches humanities and writing courses at the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute. He also serves as the director of its academic writing program and its writing center. He is the executive director of Inkwell (www.inkwell.asia), a literary collective that holds free and public writing workshops in China. He has written columns for The Global Times, China Daily, and Sixth Tone, and has published in numerous literary journals. His first scholarly book, Teaching Second Language Creative Writing was published in December of 2021 by Routledge. Three fantasy novels, The Willows, Arcadian Midnight, and The Warden were published by Aethon Books.