Calling all lovers! Do you wish to explore the yearning, burning, desire of romance? The grief of heartbreak? The loneliness of unrequited love? The complex betrayal of lost familial and/or platonic love? In this workshop we will seek to understand the challenges and joys of writing about love. The course is open to writers of any genre (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction/essay, hybrid forms) who want to generate new material or add to preexisting material or works in progress. Throughout the week, each class will focus on a specific category of love: romance, heartbreak, unrequited love, and familial/platonic love. We will engage in short reading assignments of poetry, fiction, essay, and hybrid forms to study how writers capture love, with special attention given to craft elements such as language, the line and sentence, mood and atmosphere, tension, scene, character, and more. We will use the texts as inspiration for our own work, and we will generate new writing (in the genre of your choice) through exercises, experiments, rituals, and prompts. We will also offer first impressions and in-class feedback on the writing you produce in our week together.   

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