Please note that the first 5 meetings of this workshop will take place on Mondays and is conducted online via Zoom and the final meeting will be in person on a Saturday. Participants will be provided information on how to join the online sessions.

 

This tuition-free workshop is open only to K-12 educators, underwritten by Bobbi Samuels/The Samuels Foundation. Please note this workshop will not meet on Monday, October 31 or Monday, November 21. 

For educators, time is of the essence. How do we make use of the small minutes available to us for creativity and reflection? In this course, we will focus on short forms, like the flash essay and the fifty-word story, to see how compression invites innovation.

We will complete generative exercises in class to get us writing and experimenting, using writers such as Sei Shōnagon, Lydia Davis, and Jamaica Kincaid as models. Outside of class, we will focus on revision and drafting from our generative exercises. Together we will workshop our revisions, building community and becoming better readers for one another’s work.