Dreamworlds: Writing to Surrealist Art

Workshop Description

Help your writing make imaginative leaps by responding to surrealist art by Dali, Miro, Carrington, Varo, Rahon, Ernst, and others. We'll write to timed prompts and share writing with strengths-based feedback using the Amherst Writers & Artists method. All experience levels and genres welcome.

Workshop Details

Spring 2026
Dates: March 27, April 4, April 11, April 18
Four sessions with Barbara Krasner on Zoom
Monday afternoons from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M. (ET)
$215

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Workshop Facilitator

Barbara Krasner has been a certified AWA workshop facilitator since 2013. Her literary work has appeared in more than seventy literary journals. Her love of ekphrastic writing has helped through a period of chronic illness and has resulted in many literary works, including poetry published or forthcoming in The Ekphrastic Review, MacQueen's Quinterly, Main Street Rag, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, The Jewish Writing Project, and elsewhere. Her ekphrastic poetry collections include Poems of the Winter Palace (Bottlecap Press, 2025), The Night Watch: Poems (Kelsay Books, 2025), Insomnia: Poems after Lee Krasner (Dancing Girl Press, 2026) and the forthcoming The Wanderers (Shanti Arts, 2026). She is the author of several fabulist short stories and is at work on a poetry collection in response to artwork by female surrealists.

Questions: editors@riverheronreview.com

Refunds: Up to one week prior to the workshop start date, full refund minus $15 processing fee. After that time, there are no refunds.

Workshop sessions are not recorded, nor are there make up sessions.