This is an online workshop conducted via Zoom. Participants who are registered will be provided information on how to join the online sessions.

This workshop was filled on a first-come, first-serve basis and is now full. Please email info@inprinthouston.org to join the waiting list as well as to be notified about future offerings and use “Houston Methodist” in the subject line.

Offered by the Center for Performing Arts Medicine at Houston Methodist and presented by Inprint, Houston’s premier literary arts nonprofit organization, this workshop is free to employees and volunteers of Houston Methodist and HM physicians in private practice

“Dissonance, if you are interested, leads to discovery,” wrote William Carlos Williams. As a poet and physician, Williams was as acquainted with the messy stuff of life—love, death, family, politics, sex, religion—as he was with the messy business of the body. This storytelling workshop will approach what Williams called “dissonance” as a starting place for discovery and the generative zone for beginning a story. What are our paradoxes, contradictions, disagreements, spats, arguments, and conflicts in our daily lives? And what do they tell us about who we are, who we want to be, what we’ve lost, what we stand to gain?

In this six-week online writing workshop, we will explore and generate story, touching down on elements of writing craft applicable to the first-time writer or the seasoned novelist. We will read great works, write through exercises, share stories we have crafted, and form a community of curious, compassionate minds. We hope you’ll join us for this workshop in the spirit of risk-taking, community uplift, and self-discovery. I can’t wait to learn your stories.