Fridays, April 7th-April 28th
3pm-5:30pm
Ages 18+
Suggested class price: $200/person
Our personal narratives stem from our embodied experiences. Writing through and from the body can be both healing and illuminating. In this 4-week workshop writers of all levels dive deep into personal narrative through somatic exercises, collaborative workshopping, and writing from, for, and with the body. From “navel gazing” to movement exercises, this workshop provides a safe space to write personal narratives from fiction and nonfiction to poetry and hybrid forms. Writers will study other somatic texts, learn from each other’s work, and practice revision techniques in this generative workshop.
*Sliding scale tuition: Part of our mission, as a non-profit, is to create access to art education for everyone in our community. To this end, we offer sliding scale tuition on select workshops at TNL. Lower pricing is available for those facing financial hardships. Other students may choose to 'pay it forward' by choosing a higher price than the suggested cost, thereby helping a student in need.About the Instructor:
Amy Bobeda holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she serves as director of the Naropa Writing Center and teachers pedagogy, writing, and processed-based art. She’s the founder and publisher at Wisdom Body Collective, a process-based, somatic artist collective. During 2020 she ran an email series called the Ekphrastic Salon, providing folks with ekphrastic, contemplative, and somatic writing prompts. Her work appears in journals and anthologies in the State and abroad. With a focus on hybrid forms and contemplative practices her work navigates the origins of language as menstrual, menstrual symbolism in myths and fairytales, and ecopoetics. She loves focusing on the messy states of writing and helping students develop their work at every stage of the process. She's the author of Red Memory (FlowerSong Press), What Bird Are You? (Finishing Line Press), mi sin manitos (Ethel Press), and a forthcoming project from Spuyten Duyvil. She works with Radical Anthropology Group in London and lives in Lafayette, CO. She's on Twitter @amybobeda, and online at amyglenbobeda.com