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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JOURNALING (workshop is full / email if you’d like to be on a waitlist)
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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 Thursdays (January 22, 29 / February 5, 12, 19) 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
Miriam Toews’s A TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE, Slovej Balle’s ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME, DIARIES (from The Paris Review)
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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.
Are We in the Real World Here? ( workshop is full / email if you’d like to be on a waitlist)
(A Non-Fiction / Fiction Workshop)
The question I’m often asked about my writing is: “are we in the real world here?” I love this question because it asks me to pull the letters I am writing apart and look for dust and bones, a lost glove, my mother. It asks me to consider how the imagination hatches the real, and how the real can often slip into the imaginary. This workshop will consider the lines drawn between fact and fiction, and what happens when those lines blur.
In this five-week workshop you will be given weekly prompts and reading assignments to guide you through a deep exploration of how the story and the essay, fiction and nonfiction, the imagination and the real, can fuse into a great coherence.
This five-week workshop will meet on ZOOM on MONDAYS (December 1, 8, 15, 22, 29) / 9:15AM-12:45PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. All assignments, lectures, and handouts will be sent via email.
READING LIST
Patricia Lockwood’s Will There Ever Be Another You, Anelise Chen’s Clam Down, Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book
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 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 Mondays (October 27, Nov 3, 10, 17, 24) 5:15PM-8:45PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. All assignments, lectures, and handouts will be sent via email.
READING LIST
(stories by Franz Kafka, Elizabeth McCracken, Donald Barthelme, Shirley Jackson. Yiyun Li, Ben Lerner, Grace Paley, Lydia Davis, Jorge Luis Borges, Stuart Nadler, Rachel Cusk, Kristen Iskandrian, Samantha Hunt, Samanta Schweblin, Carmen Maria Machado, Aimee Bender, Marie Helene-Bertino, Reginald McKnight and others)
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 Mondays (June 30, July 7, 14, 21, 28) from 5:15PM-8:45PM 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
Eula Biss’s NOTES FROM NO MAN’S LAND, Deborah Levy’s THE POSITION OF SPOONS, Amy Leach’s THINGS THAT ARE, Mary Ruefle’s MADNESS, RACK, and HONEY, & Hélène Cixous’s REVOIR
Also highly recommend THE LOST ORIGINS OF THE ESSAY & THE NEXT AMERICAN ESSAY (edited and introduced by John D’Agata)
REGISTER
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)
SIGN UP NOW
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 (April 21, 28 / May 5, 12, 19) from 5:15PM-8:45PM 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
Maggie Nelson’s Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth / Franz Kafka’s HE (Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka) / Sheila Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries / and Nina MacLaughlin’s MOON IN 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.
REGISTER (workshop is full)
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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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