Winter Wheat Sessions: How to Choose and Suggested Tracks

Winter Wheat is less than three weeks away! Have you registered yet? This year’s festival will take place November 6-8th at Bowling Green State University in the Education Building. We are offering over thirty generative and informative workshops. Whether you want to learn more about publishing, explore experimental writing forms, blur the genre lines, or learn how to get unstuck from the middle of your work, we have workshops for you! You can see our full schedule of workshops here.


Not sure what to pick? Too many decisions? Check out some of the potential workshop pathways we’ve brainstormed for you!


Session Archetype Paths: Choose your Fighter!


The Activist: Are you interested in art as activism? How your poetry, fiction, or nonfiction can be impactful? Do you want your writing to stretch beyond the page? Think about your work as it lives in the world? Then check out this workshop pathway!


Suggested track: AZ1 → B4 → C4 → D5 → E2 → F4


The Wanderer (a.k.a. “I’m stuck” or “I want something fresh”): What better way to get unstuck than to hear other writers talk about their processes and methods? How about stepping outside your comfort zone and exploring experimental forms, flash, surrealism, or prose poetry (Maybe something short and sweet will spark new ideas)? Or maybe you just need a session on how to get through the trickiest part of your novel? With a balance of generation, process, and methods, check out some of our sessions on flash, writers talking about other writers, and how to get unstuck.


Suggested Track: A2 → B3 → C1 → D4 → EZ-4 → F1 or FZ-5


The Magician: Are you interested in genre work? Worldbuilding? Magical realism, fantasy, or horror? Check out some of these creative workshops on myth, fable, roleplaying games, monsters, and more.


Suggested Track: A4 or A5 → B1 → C2 or C3 → D-Z3 → E1 → F2


The Girl Boss: So you want to publish? Or maybe you just want to grow your writing career, hear about the industry, or learn about submitting to magazines. Read about our sessions that discuss writing query letters, marketing, or generative sessions that help you create short pieces ready to send out!

Suggested Tracks: AZ-1→ BZ-2→ C2→ D3 → E3 → F3


The Experimenter: You’re a nonconformist. (It’s okay, you can say it aloud). You’re the protagonist in a chosen one novel or the rebel in a dystopia. You’re a rulebreaker. Some of these workshops might just be as strange as you as they explore weird perspectives, gather from other nontraditional sources, think about weird forms or structures, and spark new ideas using ekphrasis.


Suggested Track: A3 or A5→ B2 → C3 or C5→ D1 → E4 → F3 or F5

We hope you find something to spark new ideas, suits your fancy, or makes you excited to write and be in community! We can’t wait to see you there! Register here.