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Surprise yourself word after word! This workshop will include writing prompts that can apply to fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry.
Lee Zacharias is the author of 7 books—a collection of short stories, 2 collections of personal essays, and 4 novels. Her most recent book of essays, Remember Me, was published by Unicorn Press in October 2024. Both her first novel, Lessons, and her third novel, Across the Great Lake, won the North Carolina Sir Walter Raleigh Award. Across the Great Lake also received a silver medal in literary fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards, was named a 2019 Notable Michigan Book by the Library of Michigan, and won the Phillip H. McMath Book Award. Her fourth novel, What a Wonderful World This Could Be, which received a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, was chosen as a finalist or Distinguished Favorite by Foreword Indies, the American Book Awards, Independent Book Awards, and NYC Big Book Awards. She was won silver medals for both literary fiction and creative nonfiction from the Independent Press Book Awards, and her nonfiction has been honored many times by the annual Best American Essays, which reprinted her essay “Buzzards” in the 2008 edition. Emerita Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and past editor of The Greensboro Review, she is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council.
When: Saturday, March, 14, 2026 | 10:00 am – Noon
Where: First Christian United Church of Christ. Fellowship Hall (ADA accessible). 415 South Church Street Burlington, NC 27215
This event is made possible by the NC Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the Alamance Arts Council.
