This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House.
THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Writing Intensive for Health Professionals: Reconnecting with Your Writing
An understanding of people’s stories, an empathetic mindset, strong observational skills, and a dedication to the task at hand are not only key within the healthcare system, but capabilities essential to the practice of writing creatively. In the healthcare setting, it can often be difficult to find that quiet and focused time to dedicate to one’s artistic practices, and to uphold the discipline required to make significant progress on a literary project.
This class is designed to give healthcare providers extended and unadulterated time to reconnect with their writing and refocus on their writing goals. Over the course of Saturday and Sunday afternoons, we will read and respond to published creative works, analyze relevant craft essays and utilize their proposed strategies. We will write to tailored writing prompts, discuss the process of finding publishing opportunities, and implement long-lasting strategies to cultivate a literary community within healthcare.
About the instructor
PRITHA BHATTACHARYYA is a fiction writer and teacher. She is a 2024 Postdoctoral Fellow at the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics. Her work appears in The Southern Review, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, Nashville Review, Bodega, Apogee Journal, and elsewhere. She received her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow and received the 2023 Inprint Joan and Stanford Alexander Prize in Fiction and the 2022 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction. She also holds an MFA from Boston University. Her work has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Willapa Bay AiR, Virginia Center for Creative Arts (VCCA), Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Inprint, Tagore Society of Houston, and the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers.
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