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September 5th at 3:00 PM

Creative Prompt Writing Workshop

with Author Rachel Turney

Join local author, Rachel Turney, in a creative prompt writing workshop. Together we will explore several prompts with time to write, edit, and share our work. All genres of writing are welcome! If you aren’t a writer, come join us to listen and enjoy the literary community at Inkberry.

About the Author

Rachel Turney, Ed.D. (she/her) is the Writer in Residence (2026) at NKollectiv in Englewood, Colorado and runs the Trident Women's Writing Group in Boulder. She is a poetry mentor with the Association of Writers

& Writing Programs. Rachel is passionate about immigrant rights, teacher support, and empowering other artists. She is a Writers' Hour prize winner and has been nominated for Best of the Net and Best Microfiction. Rachel is the founder of the popular online reading series Poetry (in Brief) and EIC of PiB (the Magazine). She is on staff at Bare Back Magazine with her monthly column Friday Night in the Suburbs. She reads for The Los Angeles Review. Her debut poetry collection, Record Player Life (the b-side), is available with The Poetry Lighthouse. Her second poetry book, Retired Wannabe Club Kid, is out now with Parlyaree Press. Website: turneytalks.com Instagram: @turneytalks Bluesky: rachelturney


Retired Wannabe Club Kid features an expansive collection of poems spanning decades and continents, all celebrating the power of music, parties, and the night.

Record Player Life spins through the intimate, the strange, and the deeply human. Rachel's poems wander through neighborhoods and airports, hospitals and city streets, kitchens, cemeteries, and distant landscapes. They capture the small rituals that hold a life together: the sound of a train passing, or a cup of coffee cooling on a Saturday morning. Yet beneath these ordinary scenes lies a restless mind asking larger questions about identity, loss, time, and what it means to keep living after life fractures. Like the unexpected songs on the reverse side of a beloved album, these poems surprise, unsettle, and linger.