WORKSHOPS • PROMPTS/CONSULTING • WORKSHOP ARCHIVE • TESTIMONIALS
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Sabrina has created a physical/mental/emotional space in that luminous realm between enCouragement and flight. Enter and you will write your way into the dark wood. Stay and she will show you the flowers that mark the way back.
- Michelle Castleberry is the author of Dissecting the Angel and Other Poems
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ONE STORY (WORKSHOP IS FULL)
In this five-week workshop you will each write ONE STORY over and over again as we consider the many, many ways to fiction. Over our time together your story will grow and shrink and grow more. I will provide prompts each week for you to handle and mishandle character, setting, plot. We will practice how to use the smallest image to see the larg(est) picture. We will not give up on the story even if the story gives up on us. The hope here is that you write the story of your dreams.
This five-week workshop will meet on ZOOM on Wednesdays (March 5, 12, 19, 26 and April 2) 5:15-8:45PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. All assignments, lectures, and handouts will be sent via email.
READING LIST
(stories by Stuart Nadler, Ramona Ausubel, Franz Kafka, Elizabeth McCracken, Amber Dermont, Samanta Schweblin, Jorge Luis Borges, Lydia Davis, Kristen Iskandrian, Reginald McKnight, Yiyun Li, Aimee Bender, Ben Lerner and others…)
Also highly recommend MY MOTHER SHE KILLED ME, MY FATHER HE ATE ME: FORTY NEW FAIRY TALES (edited by Kate Bernheimer and Carmen Giménez)
REGISTER (workshop is full)
Full payment of $585 is required to hold your spot. If you need to work out a payment plan please don’t hesitate to email me.
ONE ESSAY (WORKSHOP IS FULL)
In this five-week workshop you will each write ONE ESSAY as we consider the many, many ways to nonfiction, to wonder, to question, to claim authority, to research, to remember. You will arrive with a single topic, and I will provide prompts each week for you to shatter, repair, undo, plant, unearth, and then replant your topic until something (fingers crossed) unexpected grows.
This five-week workshop will meet on ZOOM on Sundays (March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30) from 9:15AM-12:45PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. All assignments, lectures, and handouts will be sent via email.
Weekly reading and writing assignments will guide you. All levels welcome. Workshop is limited to 10 participants.
Reading list
Selected writing from Eula Biss, Saeed Jones, Nina MacLaughlin, Jenny Boully, Kiese Laymon, Moyra Davey, Yiyun Li, Rachel Zucker, Mary Ruefle and others
Also highly recommend THE LOST ORIGINS OF THE ESSAY & THE NEXT AMERICAN ESSAY (edited and introduced by John D’Agata)
REGISTER (workshop is full)
Full payment of $585 is required to hold your spot. If you need to work out a payment plan please don’t hesitate to email me.
JOURNALING
WORKSHOP IS FULL
In this five-week workshop we will keep (and share) a daily journal. We will study the composition of the entry and its worth, the strangeness and beauty of raw material, and the relationship between confession and invention. What does it mean to record, plot, or sketch an unfolding day? We will discuss how an entry might grow into an essay, or a poem, or a story. You will leave this workshop bursting with ideas.
Note: entries can be dreams, grocery lists, notes towards a novel, letters to nobody, a list of current events, sobbings, pieces of poems, fictions or chicken scratch. Which is to say, this workshop is a multi-genre workshop. All forms are welcome (poetry, prose, hybrid, memoir, essay, flash, fragment, and everything in between).
This five-week workshop will meet on ZOOM on MONDAYS (January 20, 27 / February 3, 10, 17) from 9:15AM-12:45PM EST. All assignments, lectures, and handouts will be sent via email.
Weekly reading and writing assignments will guide you. All levels welcome. Workshop is limited to 10 participants.
READING LIST
Kate Zambreno’s BOOK OF MUTTER, Moyra Davies’s INDEX CARDS, Franz Kafka’s DIARIES
Bruna Dantas Lobato’s BLUE LIGHT HOURS
REGISTER (journaling is full)
Full payment of $585 is required to hold your spot. If you need to work out a payment plan please don’t hesitate to email me.
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Take it so you don't die wondering why you never got so close to your own magic.
- Hope Hilton is an an artist, writer, educator, & author of Walks
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