Alan Michael Parker, a published poet of multiple pieces, will speak at Winter With the Writers this Thursday, February 20^th. Parker will hold a master writing class at 2 p.m. at Winter Park Plaza and a reading at 7:30 p.m. in the Bush Auditorium.

Parker’s poetry has been featured in multiple renowned outlets including the 2013 Best American Essays and Waccamaw. Parker also won the 2013 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize for his poem, “The Ladder.”

For more information on Winter With the Writers, visit the Winter With the Writers website.

Julie Compton will begin a ten-week long creative writing workshop on March 11^th. The workshop, open to eight participants, will meet every Tuesday from 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. Each week, the writers will respond to prompts and read their work aloud for group feedback. Julie will critique each writer’s manuscript during the ten-week session and have individual meetings with each writer. The participation fee for the workshop is $395. For more information on the workshop and to register, visit the Beach Writers website.