This workshop will be led by Ibe Liebenberg, April Writer-in-Residence at the Hemingway House. We will look at different techniques to why excluding information can keep the reader more engaged in both poetry and fiction. There are several ways we can withhold information and create more dynamic characters and stories.

Registration required. In-person only. Instructions on attending will be emailed to attendees the day before the workshop.

Ibe Liebenberg is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. He lives in Paradise, California and works as a firefighter, and a lecturer at Chico State University. He is a recent graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in both poetry and fiction. He has been published in POETRY Magazine, The ThreePenny Review, Ecotone, North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Sugar House Review, American Journal of Poetry, and Salamander Magazine. Finalist of the James Welch Poetry contest. Winner of the Tribal College Journals Creative writing contest in both fiction and poetry. Winner of the Sowell Emerging Writers Prize for his poetry collection Birds at Night. Winner of 2024 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize.

The previous evening, Ibe will be reading at the library from his new collection, Birds at Night. Learn more or register here.