WELCOME!
Wild Idylls is a project-based experience dedicated to mentoring new writers and college applicants to unlock creative possibilities, amplify skills, and center language arts and publishing. Each project is custom-designed to meet specific interests and needs.
Discover your wilds: Tap the imagination with real-world applications in goal-setting, while gaining research, writing, and publication skills.
Use technology, media opportunities, and web presence for social good.
Grow connections across business, marketing, and technology sectors.
Engage in phases of publishing: pre-production, book production, pre-launch, launch, and post-launch.
Share results through print or digital media and in-person events.
Wid Idylls advocates for the joy inherent in education and the arts, creating cultural change-makers while supporting neuro richness, diversity, and self-esteem.
INSTRUCTOR
I work with students and new writers one-on-one, customizing a plan by unearthing interests and goals, mapping out publication/ presentation timelines and budgets, and discussing obstacles and outcomes. Find out more by exploring my bio and publications.
PROCESS
Click the Contact button to begin and provide details: topics to explore, current experience, relevant links or websites, resources, and any application information or deadlines. I will respond with a request for any work samples and set up a discovery call.
ABOUT WILD IDYLLS
Wild Idylls originated with support from the Arts Enterprise Laboratory, and student-driven grants led to publication and performance. Mentorship included writers like myself, poets Cathy Wagner, Alba Cruz Hacker, Kazim Ali, Zachary Schomburg, and Octopus Books designer Drew Swenhaugen. Published chapbooks include: Taylor Johnson’s breaking sunsets, Whitney Aviles-Low’s The Child’s Shadow, Kat Dieter’s photographs and poems, Tidal Acceleration, Kalinah White’s Guarded Memories, Peruvian writer Maria Alvarado’s book WRECKED, and Erin Breen’s Misconceptions! Two books of student prose and an anthology (Cars Crash Here) were published. Participants also published in Generations Literary Magazine, The Story Shack, the Claremont Review, Four Winds Literary Journal, and Parallax-online.
Students in this program were awarded writing awards from Santa Fe University of Art and Design, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the YoungArts Competition, Bennington Young Writers Award, Hollins College, and the Faulkner-Wisdom Competition. They went on to attend NYU, Chapman, Evergreen, the Institute of the American Indian Arts, the University of Michigan, and Goucher College.
