2024 WRITING WORKSHOP          in residence

WORKSHOP GENERALS

 

The goal of the workshop is to understand where as writers are we individually coming from & try to further  work by offering ideas, craft tools and advice to be able to develop a practice and process that would fit each individual. 

 

There would be no imposing approach, subject, form, theme to writing on others, nor any aesthetic or ideological superiority of any forms of poetry or prose or approaches, any schools of art or methods of thinking about art.

 

Together we will try to unravel and understand our process of writing, what we want to communicate, to tell and find the ways that better suit each one's voice to express.

 

The workshop will be non-hierarchical creative space in which everyone feels challenged & inspired, & everyone feels heard. As a group, we will work on perceiving or relating to others’ experiences, and we will encourage & welcome any public or private discourse regarding anything each one might do.

 

There would be no right or wrong, good or bad writing.  This would be a space to understand the relationships between works of art & the audiences & how those relationships can be useful or exciting, thinking about what writing is for each one & how it works, rather than an exclusionary model. We would work on the craft of writing, both the metaphysical work & the mechanical work, that can’t be separated. 

 

There would be no pressure on delivering a final product nor scheduled or specific featured writing, but we do expect daily writing under each one style and time, in order to be able to work on and share on each meeting as a group.  

 

WORKSHOP IDEAS

 

The primary goal for the workshop is that we all end our time together understanding more about writing and our own writing than beforehand, with more fruitful & productive questions to ask of writing & with new craft tools to add to our toolbox.

 

This workshop is focused on developing & sustaining a writing practice and/or developing a project. Not only the time in the chair writing, but the making-space for the mind to play & connect & do the things writing does to language in only the way your writing can.

 

This workshop is aimed to help to both make time & focus the mind, as well as understanding our own writing process and establish a pathway into writing as writing works for each one.

 

The workshop aims to provide some help time and focus to you to adjust to & get comfortable with writing, foster a project & help push the boundaries & edges of what a writing can give you and what you can give to writing.

 

WORKSHOP GOALS

 

• Devising a writing practice that is exploratory, fun, & productive.
• Integrating writing into your life.
• Balancing inspiration & routine.
• Discovering & employing different tools, styles and voices in each one and between the group. 
• Understanding each one's voice and each one own personal style.
• Fostering the development of a practice.
• Writing a whole, lot, bunch
• Sharing and learning from each one and other process and experience.

 

WORKSHOP PROCESS

 

We will have two formal meeting a week as a group and you will have uninterrupted time to write during your time in residence.

 

Our meetings together will be to discuss & share some of this work.

 

When we meet we will share the theoretical, personal, metaphysical, & pragmatic elements of our writing, along with brief examples of the product.

 

We will not be giving close-reading critical critiques of individual pieces nor editing final pieces. 

 

We will discuss what we see happening in the process & the work, & explore ways of expanding, developing & deepening these processes; part shared study, part accountability practice, part sorta group therapy regarding writing with a daily project. (And, as with all group discussions, it will create its own pathways as we continue.)

 

If you have questions or further ideas concerning the workshop plans, you can contact info@casanailha.org