The Art of Letter Writing with Tori Rego

Your favorite pen scratching—dreams of a loved one far away—a doodle in the corner of the page—the sound of the envelope unsticking—salutations—in our hyper-speed digital world of instant communication, a practice of letter writing invites us to slow down and think carefully about words as a gift to a distant someone.

Writers across genres and times have utilized the epistolary form (letter-writing) to communicate ideas only touched at in their final, published work with loved ones, editors, and readers. In this hands-on workshop we’ll read letters by artists and writers of time’s past. We will apply their literary techniques with a dash of whimsy to create original, handwritten letters. You may even leave this workshop with a new pen-pal or two! Stamps & stationery provided.

Doors open at 7PM, the workshop will begin at 7:30PM. See you then✨

🐌 Meet your Host 💌

Tori Rego is a genre-deviant writer and educator from Charleston, South Carolina. Her work flirts with fairytale and searches for the erotic in the cerebral. She received her MFA from Northern Michigan University. Her writing can be found in Fugue, Miniskirt Review, Waxwing, L’espirit, and elsewhere. She is the co-host of the Chicago local reading series Written on a Napkin and the workshop series Spitball. Her first poetry collection, “Briefly, Gently: Record of an Unreadied Boat” was shortlisted for the Chicago Reader’s Award for Best New Poetry Book By a Chicagoan in 2024. A full list of her published work can be found on her website www.torirego.com.