We often think of literary settings as vast natural landscapes or bustling urban backdrops, but some of our most human stories take place in everyday, domestic settings. A yellow kitchen table, an old reclining chair, a child’s broken toy, or a door burst open can each give readers a sense of character, place, movement, emotion, and time. This generative workshop will guide you through a series of prompts to help you build, design, and renovate your interiors, detail scenes and bodies in private spaces, and consider further how home life shapes the story you are telling. This class is best suited for writers of nonfiction and fiction at all stages, but all genres are welcome. Students will share work toward the end of the week for verbal discussion, but the focus of this workshop will be on creating new work, rather than on feedback and revision.

In this workshop, we will generate new writing through guided exercises and prompts; offer first impressions on writing you produce in our week.