This is an event of the Queer Resurgence on Capitol Hill Poetry Slam Festival!

This project is funded in part by a Neighborhood Matching Fund award from the City of Seattle, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods

Have you ever sabotaged yourself as a writer? Why do writers get in our own way? Given that there are plenty of external barriers to achieving our aspirations, why would our own actions/inactions ever collude with those barriers? This workshop will unpack these questions and help each writer begin to build personal strategies to interrupt self-sabotage and reroute that energy towards progress.

Bio:
Tara Hardy is the working class, Queer, Femme, chronically ill, founder of Bent, a writing institute for LGBTQ writers in Seattle. Her first book of poetry, Bring Down the Chandeliers, by Write Bloody Press primarily addressed being a father-daughter incest survivor. She is a former Seattle Poet Populist, Richard Hugo House Writer in Residence, and an alumna of Hedgebrook. Tara teaches at Seattle Central College, Richard Hugo House and Path With Art. She is the Arts Director at Gay City and believes art is a powerful tool for social change. Tara holds an MFA from Vermont College. Her most recent book, My, My, My, My, My, was released by Write Bloody Press in the fall of 2016.