INSTRUCTOR: Andreana Binder

TIME: Saturday, July 12, 9:30 am - 12:30 p.m. CST

PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, July 6. After Sunday, July 6: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here.

LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map)

LEVEL: All levels

CAP: 15

Creative non-fiction centered but not exclusively so. In this workshop we will use the five senses with a theme centered around pastels, paper, colored pencils and markers used to draw in class with our writing prompts. We will also choose art to write about from the Sabine Street Studios gallery.

Feeling stuck on an existing project, or that you would love to write more, but you don’t know where to begin? In this workshop, we will explore writing with exercises inspired by one or more of the five senses: taste, scent, touch, sight, and sound. We’ll experiment with prompts based on fragrance, as well as visual and auditory prompts, to generate ideas for both new and ongoing projects. We’ll also explore how the senses are deeply linked with memory—for example, how scent can bring us back to a specific place, moment, or feeling—and how writing with the five senses helps us create concrete details that engage readers. Writers of all levels are welcome.

All you need to bring is a willingness to enjoy your writing experience and your favorite writing tools (paper and pen or laptop).

Andreana Binder is a corporate writer by trade, with a love for the arts and education. Andreana has taught courses in Composition & Rhetoric, Technical Communications, Early American Literature, as well as Creative Writing at Lone Star College and Houston Community College. Binder has a bachelor’s in Poetry from the University of Houston and a Masters in Creative Writing-Poetry from Antioch University. As a graduate student, Andreana was co-creator and editor for The Sylvan Echo Online Literary Journal. . Despite having studied poetry, Andreana cannot resist writing nonfiction essays and dabbling in short fiction. Her poetry has been published in Temenos and Fawlt Magazine, as well as creative nonfiction essays in Pebble Lake Review and N/A Lit Journal.

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