Centrum Creative Nonfiction Workshop

PORT TOWNSEND — Nationally known poets and authors Sheila Bender and Meg Files, in Port Townsend for the Centrum Creative Nonfiction Workshop this week, will give a free reading of their writings at Fort Worden State Park on Friday. 

Admission is free to the 7:30 p.m. gathering in Building 262 at Fort Worden, 200 Battery Way.

Bender’s newest works are A New Theology: Turning to Poetry in a Time of Grief, a memoir about the months after her son’s sudden death, and Behind Us the Way Grows Wider, a book of poetry. 

She also has written instructional books for writers, including Creative Writing De-mystified and Writing and Publishing the Personal Essay. She teaches around the country at centers and literary arts programs. 

Files is the author of Write from Life: Turning Your Personal Experiences Into Compelling Stories, The Love Hunter and Other Poems, Galapagos Triptych: Three Ways of Seeing the Galapagos Islands and the novel The Third Law of Motion. 

For more information about the reading, the Creative Nonfiction Workshop and other Centrum offerings at Fort Worden, phone 360-385-3102 or visit www.Centrum.org.