Wish You Were Here: Stories and Poems Inspired by Postcards
November 6-8, 2026
About the Course
Behold the postcard, the epistolary equivalent of the very short story! For more than a hundred years, the postcard offered a quick, inexpensive and colorful way to people to communicate before the advent of email and text messages. In this weekend class, a smorgasbord of postcards, published stories, and guided prompts will serve as inspiration for your own very short stories, essays or poems that are ideally suited to fit on the back of a postcard. You’ll wish you were here and be glad that you are!
Great for all writers at any level.
About the Instructor
Sarah Freligh is the author of five books, including Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize and the 2015 Whirling Prize from the University of Indianapolis, and A Brief Natural History of Women, published in 2023 by Harbor Editions. Recent work has appeared in the Cincinnati Review miCRo series, SmokeLong Quarterly, Sun Magazine, the Wigleaf 50, and in the anthologies New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018), Best Microfiction (2019-22) and Best Small Fiction 2022. Among her awards are poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation.
Online Roundtable
BG Editor-in-Chief Robert Vaughan leads this four month program in an informal online setting. Participants receive a monthly “lesson” and writing prompts, monthly one-on-one sessions with the instructor via Zoom, and together with their group, receive and offer feedback on their writing exercises.
Writing Retreats
Each year we offer week-long, in person writing retreats. You will have the opportunity and inspiration to explore the unique challenges that writers face in writing a new piece each day. The Writing Retreat is ideal for writers of all levels of experience, from previously published to novice writers who are ready to launch into new terrain.
Our Writing Groups
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