Vocalist

Lit!Commons Vocalist Pathway

Participants in Lit!Commons get access to all 10 teaching artists. Halee Kirkwood leads the Vocalist pathway, which strives to help you build skills and refresh ideas for your creative nonfiction.

Halee creates weekly on-demand content that can fit into your busy schedule and follows up with live sessions as well as peer conversation in our shared community.

In this pathway, you'll find activities and lessons like: 

  • Creating a Story Bank
  • Avenues, Alleys, and Backroads into Creative Nonfiction
  • Approaching Character in Nonfiction

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Your Teaching Artist

Lit!Commons Subscribers Gain Access to All 10 Teaching Artists. The Vocalist path is led by Halee Kirkwood.

The Vocalist Halee Kirkwood

Halee Kirkwood is an emerging Ojibwe poet, teaching artist, and bookseller living in Minneapolis, MN. Their work has been published in Poetry Magazine, Poem-A-Day, Water~Stone Review, and others. Kirkwood is the 2022 winner of the James Welch Poetry Prize, forthcoming with Poetry Northwest. They are a 2022 IN-NA-PO (Indigenous Nations Poets) Fellow, a 2021-22 Minnesota State Arts Board Recipient, and a 2019-2020 Loft Mentor Series Fellow. Kirkwood is a direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.

The Vocalist Path

This curriculum will build over time. You get access to it all!

    1. What to Expect from the Vocalist

    2. Shared Values and Rules

    1. Introducing a character (when, where, who, what, why) & an inciting incident -- _Unbroken_ by Laura Hillenbrand

    1. How It All Began - inspired by Susan Lieu

    1. "Found" essay

    1. Writing about trauma: making space for the reader

    1. Introduction from new Vocalist, Halee Kirkwood

    2. Avenues, Alleys, and Backroads into Creative Non-Fiction

About this path

  • Weekly On-Demand Lessons
  • Live Follow-up Sessions
  • Shared Community