Writing in Public Space: Exploring Memory, Movement, and Meaning in the Everyday

​Wednesdays 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

This five-week generative writing workshop uses public space as a prompt for new creative work. We’ll observe how walking, loitering, shopping, and commuting can generate material to develop into writing back in the classroom.

​Each week, we’ll explore how everyday environments—subway stations, sidewalks, parks, shops—can spark unexpected memories, reflections, and stories. Observations and experiences gathered in public space will become the foundation for new writing in the classroom: meditative episodes, digressive accounts, and stream-of-consciousness vignettes that trace the interplay between external space and inner life.

• ​Time spent in public space gathering material

• ​A focused in-class writing period with prompts

• ​Optional sharing and discussion.

​This class is open to writers and artists of all levels who are curious about the relationship between attention, movement, and narrative.

​We’ll draw inspiration from short, optional readings by writers such as Nicholson Baker, Teju Cole, Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, and W.G. Sebald.

​By the end of the course, you’ll leave with a body of new writing, sharpened observational tools, strategies for gathering material, and a renewed awareness of how the world around you can shape your creative practice.