On select third Fridays of the month from 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, we’ll explore a different writing topic in a lecture-style format after enjoying lunch together. This event will pop up at nearby restaurants in Fond du Lac, Winnebago, Sheboygan, and Washington Counties. Limited to 5 registered participants per Lunch & Learn. Participants are responsible for purchasing their own lunch at the chosen restaurant. We will meet at the restaurant at 11:30 AM, order food, eat, then discuss the writing topic at hand. The event will likely wrap up well before 1:30 PM, but we’ll allot for two full hours to learn and discuss thoroughly.
Join us offsite for a quick, seminar-style class on third Fridays of the month. We’ll order our lunch (pay your own way), and then get into the learning! Expect to receive handouts and come prepared with a few questions regarding each writing topic. No need to bring a laptop or notebook; Lake Lit will provide everything you need — worksheets, pens/pencils, and inspiration. We’ll eat first, learn about the topic for 30 minutes, then have time for writing and sharing.
July 18: For our July Lunch and Learn, we’ll meet at Kurtev’s Backyard Bar & Grill on Johnson Street in Fond du Lac to learn about history and biography writing.
August 15: For our August Lunch and Learn, we’ll meet and dine at Eden Cafe with a dessert course field trip to Kelley Country Creamery to learn about writing the rural and pastoral, in both fiction and nonfiction.
Just $5 and includes all handouts, writing instruments, and dedicated time for your questions about writing. No need to bring anything with you for the class; Lake Lit provides all materials. For our first-ever Lunch & Learn on Friday, June 20, we will meet at Schmitty’s Bar & Grill on Winnebago Drive in Fond du Lac to learn about food writing.
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About your instructor:
Erica Floyd holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the owner, founder, and CEO of Lake Literary Center, as well as a writer and editor. Floyd is also former Director of Marketing for Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts and former editor-in-chief of Equipment Today Magazine, as well as the former blog editor, weekly content manager, and flash prose editor for Lunch Ticket, a literary journal. Floyd's writing is published in Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Lunch Ticket, Litbreak Magazine, Reservoir Journal, and BusinessWeek, and cited in several nonfiction books. Floyd graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a bachelor's degree from the School of Journalism & Mass Communication, and has worked in consumer journalism, communications, marketing, logistics, compliance, supply chain, and human resources roles since 2010. She is at work on a second novel, a motley crew of flash stories, an incidental collection of personal essays, critical essays, author interviews, and translations. Floyd lives in rural Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where she also co-owns and helps operate Gourmet's Delight Mushrooms, a second-generation, family-owned, certified organic mushroom farm.