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NEW | Boxing Your Trauma


Adult activities and classes / General Interest / General Interest -
Adult - Fall 2025

This generative workshop will discuss how and why writers explore traumatic experiences. You will look at examples, write, and have an opportunity to share your work in a supportive environment. The workshop will provide you with techniques you can use in both prose and poetry to begin the process of writing and boxing trauma into various forms and styles. You will leave with new written work and concrete tips to help you move forward on your writing journey.

Eligible UCare members may receive an allowance to spend toward community education classes. Members must have UCare insurance at the time of registration. Limits and restrictions may apply. Contact UCare for further information.

Allison Blevins

Instructor

Allison Blevins (she/her) is a queer disabled writer and the author of Where Will We Live if the House Burns Down?, Cataloguing Pain, Handbook for the Newly Disabled: A Lyric Memoir, Slowly/Suddenly, and six chapbooks. Winner of the 2024 Barthelme Prize, the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and the 2022 Laux/Millar Poetry Prize, Allison serves as the Publisher of Small Harbor Publishing and lives in Minnesota with her spouse and three children. allisonblevins.com

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AL-B769-F1

  Allison Blevins


Online Course
Mondays, Sep 22 - Oct 13
6:30 - 7:30 PM

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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 35 00