What's Happening at LIMINAL?

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP VIA ZOOM

For many of us in the United States, November will be month 8 of living in the time of Covid. This entire experience, is one giant liminal space between what was our “normal” and what might be our future existence. Not only are we living through a global Pandemic, but unprecedented behavior continues to ooze out of the white house, police brutality has come under particular scrutiny as the Black Lives Matter movement forefronts the push to abolish our police force as is, and human rights violations and atrocities abound around ICE detention centers, in the prison industrial complex, in our education system and in the exploitative corporate labor force.

Our day to day existence has changed.

What does this look like? What does it feel like? What sorts of experiences are we having? How are we documenting them? How are we, as writers, writing about and through this time?

This workshop will begin with a conversation around being writers during this time. We will read selections of literature that exemplify some of the ways other writers have written about and through historically difficult times. A series of prompt-based generative exercises, inspired by the writing we will look at, will give us a chance to create some new pieces.

The majority of the pieces we will look at are prose pieces. There will be one or two poems in the mix. The prompts will be open enough to accommodate any genre or type of writing you would like to write.

Please e-mail me at gina@theliminalcenter.com to register. Put Writing Workshop in the subject line of your e-mail.