Finding Your Authentic Voice with Instructor & Local Poet Laureate Josie Emmons Turner
Saturday, January 31, 2026
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Anderson Island Historical Society
Lois Scholl Room in Chicken Coop #2
Join us for Anderson Island Arts for an inspiring and supportive poetry workshop that nurtures creativity and encourages self-expression through the written word.
$75 includes a full day of instruction, snacks, coffee, and tea. No experience necessary. Scholarships are available.
About the Instructor
Josie Emmons Turner’s book More Blue was published by Cave Moon Press earlier this year. She is a contributing writer to West Sound Magazine, and her poetry has been well published, including in The Madrona Project: The Empty Bowl Cookbook; The Madrona Project: Art in the Public Voice; The Examined Life, A Western Washington Poets Network Anthology; Collateral; California Quarterly, High Shelf Press X; and Poets Choice: Now That You Are Gone From This World. She served as Tacoma’s Poet Laureate 2011-2013, and she regularly teaches writing workshops. Turner earned her MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and has worked in arts and cultural administration for government and non-profits, as well as in public education. Turner resides on a salmon spawing estuary that feeds into the Salish Sea.