PORT TOWNSEND — Genevieve Hudson will speak at the Peninsula College Port Townsend Campus for the Studium Generale Series from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday.
The workshop at Fort Worden, 202 Eisenhower Ave. in Port Townsend, will include writing prompts and generative time to reflect, write and create, Peninsula College said.
Hudson quotes from Annie Dillard’s “The Writing Life,” when she says, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.”
Said Hudson: “As writers and artists, we must make ourselves students of life. It is our duty to stay awake, to pay close attention, to cultivate practices that keep us tuned in to our inner voices and outer world.”
They said their presentation will lead the audience to “explore practical strategies to help us hone our creativity and cultivate the life and mind of an artist.
“We will examine the rituals of other artists and writers and see what we can learn and what we can borrow,” she said. “We will give ourselves permission to play, to get weird, to open the channel.”
Hudson is the author of the novel “Boys of Alabama,” which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award.
Their other books include the “A Little in Love with Everyone” and “Pretend We Live Here: Stories,” which was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist.
They have received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, Caldera Arts and the Vermont Studio Center.
They live in Portland, Ore.
