Name: Write-In on Lake Michigan with HPPL
Start: 2026-05-08T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-08T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Rosewood Beach Interpretive Center

Come spend a morning on the lake and dive into creative writing. Be inspired by the beauty of the shoreline!
About this Event

Save the Date: Come Write on the Lake. Morning Write-In with Highland Park Poet Laureate, Laura Joyce-Hubbard. Friday, May 8th,1pm - 3:30pm. Rosewood Interpretive Center.

We’ll listen to some praise poems, then free-write in response to conversation and suggested prompts. Please bring pen and paper.

If you have a current project you're working on, please bring that as well. You're welcome to work on whatever fills your pages.

is the inaugural Highland Park Poet Laureate. Her work appears in Poetry, The Iowa Review, The Sewanee Review, the Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. She was named a 2024 National Poetry Series Finalist and Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize Finalist. Her nonfiction was “Notable” in The Best American Essays 2022 and 2023.