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Next week! We're excited to host fiction writer Monica Orange on Thursday, February 8 at 6:30 PM at the Ralph Ellison Library in OKC for the next installment of our free and public creative writing workshops. Orange will present her session “Drawing from the Root: Tapping into your Culture to Develop Voice,” and, as always, we'll do some in-class writing exercises and share our work. Put it on your calendar! Organized & sponsored by the Ralph Ellison Foundation, with thanks to the Red Earth MFA in Creative Writing at OCU and Short Order Poems for their partnership in presenting this series. And thanks to everyone for your support! Monica Orange is a writer of fiction and a freelance creative consultant from Oklahoma City. She received her BA in English from Oklahoma Christian University and her MFA. in Creative Writing from the Red Earth MFA Program at Oklahoma City University. Her creative nonfiction piece entitled "Horned Toads" recently appeared in Milk Journal. A member of the Deep Deuce Writing Society, Orange is currently developing a nonfiction series and video blog geared toward Black women that focuses on natural reproductive health and culture. @blueaura1920 @metrolibraryok #ralphellisonfoundation

Hey, poets and aspiring writers, mark your calendars for next Thursday, March 9, for the next installment of our creative writing workshop series with Jenny Yang Cropp! She'll host her session “Beyond Rhyme & Meter: Elements of Sound for Poetry and Prose” at 6:30 PM at the Ralph Ellison Library. Hope to see you there! As always, thank you to the Ralph Ellison Foundation for sponsoring & organizing this series, & to the Red Earth MFA in Creative Writing at OCU for its sponsorship & help in promoting this workshop series. Jenny Yang Cropp is the author of two chapbooks, Hanging the Moon and Usage Errors, as well as a full-length poetry collection, String Theory, which was a 2016 Oklahoma Book Award finalist. Her poems have appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Ecotone, and other journals. She currently teaches English and creative writing at Cameron University. #ralphellisonfoundation #redearthmfa #shortorderpoems