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Do you struggle with revision and would like to learn new strategies? Join us in welcoming award-winning author KB Brookins for a writing revision workshop. For adults.

This all-genre workshop will get participants more confident in revision as a necessary practice in Creative Writing. Bring your work in progress. By the end of the session, students will have at least three pages of revised work. Sponsored by the Friends of the West Hollywood Library.

KB Brookins is a Black queer and trans writer, educator, and cultural worker from Texas. KB’s poetry collection Freedom House (2023) won the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Book of Poetry. KB’s memoir Pretty (2024) won the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and the Dorothy Allison/Felice Picano Emerging Writer Award. They are currently the ACLU of Texas Artist-in-Residence and a Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Follow KB online at @earthtokb.

Attendance is limited and advance registration is required. Please register every individual in your party. This will be used to save your spots in the program. We cannot guarantee availability for any unregistered attendees.