Session Synopsis

See her dark tan…those double-D implants…the sharp tip of her high-heels…it’s a drill bit! Her poppa put Penthouse parameters around what’s pretty…early and often. Splay-legged women, laid back laughing…lipstick thick enough to paint the town.

That’s Minton Sparks with a creative voice channeled directly from some beautiful southern God in gold spurs and an Elvis fade.

A wildly original spoken word artist who has wide acclaim–from NPR’s Weekend Edition to BBC’s Bob Harris Show–Minton Sparks is a poet, storyteller, singer, comedienne, educator, writer, activist, essayist, philosopher, painter, and performance artist.

Voice is the single greatest determiner of great writing. If you can’t access a fantastic voice, you can’t keep the reader on the page. This session will help you bust through that boring conditioning and old convention to create writing that blows the crowd away.

This not-to-be-missed, laugh-out-loud hour-long conflab with Minton will show you:

How to break through convention and take big, blooming risks that make your writing unique in all the world.
How to use your childhood memories to make page-turning prose.
The stories we tell ourselves and how they can change your art – and your life.
How to get over the embarrassment or shame about the stories you have to tell to get noticed.
Exercises to get your creative juices flowing.

The Gateless Academy Symposium

Writing really can be the most liberating, sexiest, wildest, exhilarating adventure of your life.

The most anticipated virtual event of the writing world.