International Women's Writing Guild |
Free Writes and Free Workshops
Friday Free Write with Allison Joseph April 14, 2023 Registration not required. Click zoom link to join below: JOIN BY ZOOM NOW | Inspiration Everywhere: How Little Epiphanies Lead Us to New Writing” |
Allison Joseph lives in Carbondale, Illinois, where she is on the faculty at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her most recent collections of poems are Lexicon (Red Hen Press, 2021, winner of the Best Poetry Book of 2021 Award from Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference), Any Proper Weave (Kelsay Books, 2022), Speak and Spell (Glass Lyre Press, 2022), and Confessions of a Barefaced Woman (Red Hen Press, 2018). Confessions of a Barefaced Woman won the 2019 Feathered Quill Book Award and was a finalist for the 2019 NAACP Image Award. She was named Illinois Author of the Year for 2022 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. Her poems have appeared in the New York Times and in the Best American Poetry Series. Her next book, Dwelling, will be published by Red Hen in 2025. She is the widow of beloved poet and editor Jon Tribble.