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Exciting News: WIP Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission!
I’m thrilled to share that I have received a 2025 Work In Progress Micro-Support Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission! This grant will support my latest long-form fiction project: a speculative novel for adults set in the Indiana Dunes, exploring the lives of several generations of Hoosier women and their relationship to the land that holds them. At 80,000 words, my WIP (work in progress) is currently in rough draft form, and this support will allow me to refine it into a p

Jessie Renslow
Feb 72 min read


Teaching, Storytelling, and Lifelong Creativity: My Experience with the Silver Screen Filmmakers Club
Over the past year and a half, I had the incredible honor of designing and facilitating workshops as part of the Silver Screen Filmmakers Club. Through five cohorts and 25 weeks of classes across multiple locations, I had the joy of guiding participants, aged 65 and up, through the process of creating short documentary films.

Jessie Renslow
Oct 30, 20253 min read
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