Anyone who has explored the creative process understands the value of feedback. Exposing our “works in progress” to the critique of our peers takes courage but also a commitment to producing the best art we can create. Feedback can take our creative endeavors from average to excellent. Art House Dallas wants to provide an encouraging environment within a small group setting to explore your strengths and potential areas of growth as an artist.

This session will be for fiction writers only.

Registration details are provided below. Please plan on reading submitted works before coming to Feedback for Fiction Writers. In order to be prepared, work from each writer in your assigned group will be sent to you beforehand.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, September 5
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
Location: Nehemiah Coffee | 505 E Lamar Blvd Suite K100, Arlington, TX 76011

REQUIRED: Registering for this event assumes your commitment to reading four writings of five pages or less prior to the event (no more than 20 pages total). They will be emailed to you before Feedback for Writers. Once registered, please send a copy of your piece to info@arthousedallas.com one week prior to the gathering, at the latest.

The Lyceum Series are free monthly workshops held on the third Saturday of the month, offering writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. This month, we're excited for Ready, Set... Dialogue: Writing For The Stage facilitated by Janelle Gray!

Join us for the #TeenWritersProject literary arts workshop!

This creative writing workshop is an invitation for teens to explore themes of culture, creativity, identity, and society through the art of storytelling. Participants will learn proven writing tips and strategies that they will use to interpret their own ideas, in writing, of how those themes intersect. Their short stories, poems, letters, and personal essays will be submitted for publication consideration in The #TWP Quarterly Lit Zine. This workshop is led by #TeenWritersProject, a Dallas-based nonprofit that aims to make creative writing and publishing accessible to teens.

Space is limited for this workshop. Please RSVP to secure your spot! Recommended for ages 14 and up. This event is supported in part by the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.

Join us for our final Summer Creative Writing Workshop!

Participants will learn about and then choose from a variety of poetry forms including blackout poetry, abecedarian poetry, free verse and prose poetry, golden shovels, villanelles, sestinas, pantoums, and more. Model texts and writing aids for each form will be available in the style of a poetry buffet so that participants can opt into the forms that most inspire them. There will be an option to share with the group at the end of the session.

This workshop is led by Chelsea Laine Wells, a Dallas ISD public school teacher and Apprentice board member! Space is limited for this workshop. Please RSVP to secure your spot! Recommended for ages 13 and up.

A poem is a gesture toward home.
-Jericho Brown

As Brown suggests in his poem “Duplex,” the act of writing poetry can allow us to reach towards a sense of self & belonging. In this course, we will consider the relationship between place and home. We’ll look towards the material world around us, the people in our lives, our communities, nature, and systems of obstruction & oppression as avenues through which to interpret the concept of “home.” We will discuss a selection of poems interpreting “home” in different ways, and the course will end with a generative writing exercise.

Check out the syllabus

Hannah Smith is originally from Dallas, where she now works for Southwest Review. She was a 2023 National Poetry Series Finalist and Jake Adam York Semifinalist, and her poems have been published in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, Image, and elsewhere. She received an MFA from the Ohio State University, where she served as the Managing Editor for The Journal. Her collaborative chapbook, Metal House of Cards, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

Join us for the third of our Summer Creative Writing Workshops!

Participants will choose an object from the provided selection and brainstorm context such as history, meaning, and origin for that object in order to create a story idea. Once everyone has settled on an object, there will be inspiration activities, visualization, and coaching. Then participants will have writing time to get a strong start on their story idea. At the end of the session, there will be an option to share with the group.

This workshop is led by Chelsea Laine Wells, a Dallas ISD creative writing teacher and Apprentice board member!

Space is limited for this workshop. Please RSVP to secure your spot!

Join us for the second of our Summer Creative Writing Workshops!

This session will involve a creative nonfiction writing exercise. Participants will read and discuss flash memoir examples (flash writing is characterized by a length of 1000 words or less) and discuss the unique structural attributes of flash. Following this, the group will complete inspiration activities to help participants generate ideas. Finally, there will be time to write. At the end of the session, there will be an option to share with the group.

This workshop is led by Chelsea Laine Wells, a Dallas ISD creative writing teacher and Apprentice board member!

The Lyceum Series are free, monthly workshops held on the third Saturday of the month, offering writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us!

The Graphic Novel Experience: From Concept to Creation will explore the dynamic world of graphic novels. Participants will explore the art and narrative techniques unique to this medium. Throughout the course, participants will analyze and discuss seminal works, including “Maus” by Art Spiegelman and “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi. Participants can also create their own graphic novel concepts, focusing on character development, visual storytelling, and thematic depth. At the end of the course, learners will present their main storyline and portagonist and receive peer feedback, enabling a collaborative and creative learning environment.

Bahar Momeni is an Iranian-American award-winning writer, poet, translator, and human rights activist. She’s working toward her Ph.D. in Literature at UT Dallas, where she teaches creative writing and literature.

She has published works in both Farsi and English. Her writings explore themes of women’s resilience and everyday resistance, contributing to ongoing conversations in modern literature. In 2023, Bahar received the “Outstanding Emerging BIPOC Creator Award” from UT Austin, highlighting her impact as a BIPOC creator. She also receives the “2024 Future Art Writers Award” from MOZAIK Philanthropy and San Francisco State University. Currently engrossed in her debut semi-autobiographical graphic novel, The Trees We Carry, Bahar aims to extend her discourse on identity, displacement, and resistance.

Join us for our inaugural Summer Creative Writing Workshops!

This session will involve participants working together to create character trope and verb combinations in order to generate story ideas. This inspiration activity also includes optional add-ons such as emotion, object, and place to push the story idea forward. Once a combination has been settled on, participants will engage in discussion and inspiration activities as well as writing time to get a strong start on their story idea. At the end of the session, there will be an option to share with the group.

The workshop will be led by Chelsea Laine Wells, a Dallas ISD creative writing teacher and Apprentice board member.

Space is limited for this workshop. Please RSVP to secure your spot! Recommended for ages 13 and up.