FALL 2025: CREATIVE NON-FICTION WRITING with AMY LEACH
Attention enriches writing; writing enriches attention;
and both attention and writing enrich life!
In this six-session writing class, we will be pursuing the rich life by cultivating our attention, our writing, our stories and our voices through wordplay and wordwork, generating pieces through activities and assignments. We will read our work out loud, providing each other with a friendly and attentive audience, and we will have the cross-pollinating opportunity to be influenced by music, painting, and nature.
Dates: Tuesdays and Thursdays in November: November 4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20
Times: 10 am to noon
Fee: $300
AMY LEACH is the author of Things That Are (Milkweed Editions), The Everybody Ensemble (FSG), and The Salt of the Universe (FSG), a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and her work has appeared in The Best American Essays as well as numerous journals. She received a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize and has taught creative writing courses at MSU, the University of Montana, and Northwestern University.
Verge Theater is hosting a KGLT KIDS’ SONGWRITING CLASS!
CALLING ALL KIDS — Join us this November and December for a Songwriting Class taught by KGLT Kids director Brian Kassay.
Where: Verge Theater, Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture Suite 107C, 111 Grand Avenue, Bozeman, MT 59715
When: Tuesdays Nov 4-Dec 9 (4:00-5:30pm )
Who: Ages 5–14
Cost: $200
A sonic schedule
This songwriting workshop for kids takes place at the Verge Theater in the Emerson. We schedule short breaks, for games or time outdoors. The kids use a songwriting journal every day for taking notes, brainstorming song ideas, and developing their original lyrics and music. Several lessons during week survey music history, with insights the many major influences, genres, and forms that combine into today’s music.
Students will:
- Learn the art of songwriting
- Play keyboards, drums, and other instruments (bring your own if you have one)
- Collaborate with peers to create original music
Schedule:
4:00-4:10 Meet up and listen to KGLT Kids on the radio
4:10- 4:30 Instrument lesson
4:30-5:30 Songwriting and practice performance
5:30-5:40 Parent pickup
