Respond imaginatively to a prompt in any genre, then put your inspiration into print. In this workshop at the Riso Club, housed in Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop, Writers & Books’ instructors will present a short piece of published writing, facilitate a brief discussion, and provide a related prompt. Along with your fellow workshop participants, you’ll explore the fascinating risograph printing process and typeset your freshly minted words, creating a saddle-stitched chapbook to take home. Participate in one session or all three! Anastasia Nikolis, PhD is the Visiting Artist-in-Residence at St John Fisher University. Her academic research focuses on confession and intimacy as linguistic constructions in post-1945 American poetry. Her creative writing explores the intersections of visual art, place, and the body. You can find her work in the Arkansas International, the LA Review of Books , and the Adroit Journal . Risograph printing is very similar to screen-printing, where ink is pushed through a screen one color at a time. The machine works much like a photocopier, so the process is a quick, clean hybrid of technologies that produces an object made from the tangible vibrance of real ink. Founded by Evan Bobrow of Rathaus Press and David McNamara of Publish Publish LLC with support from Visual Studies Workshop, the Riso Club of Rochester aims to make risograph printing and publishing more accessible to the Rochester community. In person at Riso Club, 31 Prince St, Rochester, NY 14607 Members $70 | General Public $80 | Scholarships available