ENGAGE, GENERATE, REFLECT
This generative one-hour session is intended for high school or college teachers looking for an innovative way to incorporate creative writing, specifically hybrid and multi-genre writing, into their classrooms.
Participants will receive sample lesson plans and generative assignments using Brink’s Malleable & True: A Hybrid Craft Anthology as a blueprint, spend time generating ideas for their own respective classes, and ask questions of writer and educator Lauren Childs and Brink Books’ Editor-in-Chief Alisha Jeddeloh.
Lauren Childs
Hybrid Writing Class Instructor July 2026 || she/her
Lauren is a writer and educator from Hawaiʻi. Her work has appeared in Litro Magazine, Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawaiʻi Literature and Arts, Entropy Magazine, and elsewhere. She earned a degree in Method Acting from The Lee Strasberg and Theatre & Film Institute in New York City and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. Lauren is an MFA candidate in The Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa and was the Englert Theatre’s 2025 Nonfiction Writing Fellow.
Alisha Jeddeloh
Hybrid Writing Class Instructor July 2026 || she/her
Alisha Jeddeloh is a writer and editor based in Iowa City. As a writer, she explores community, belonging, and the fault lines in the stories we tell each other and ourselves. As an editor, she enjoys being surprised by characters and prose.