Please note that this is an online workshop conducted via Zoom. Participants will be provided information on how to join the online sessions.

If this workshop is full when you try to register, please email info@inprinthouston.org to join the waiting list and put 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

Free to employees and volunteers of Houston Methodist and HM physicians in private practice

What can a story give us? Memory, inheritance, compassion, remorse, repair. And on, of course. For many of us, we heard stories first: shared with us before we were walking, told to us before we could speak, treasured long before we could write. In clinical settings, narrative is everywhere. It is a tool for gathering information, for soothing the fearful, for expanding ourselves toward other cultures. Stories are also what we take home with us at the end of a hard day. We use them to teach our children. We use them to understand our lives.

In this six-week online writing workshop, we will explore and generate story—be it fiction or creative nonfiction—and elements of writing craft as applicable to the first-time writer as to 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.

This workshop will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis and is limited in size to create an intimate and engaging workshop environment for all participants.

If this workshop is full when you try to register, please email info@inprinthouston.org to join the waiting list and put Houston Methodist in the subject line.