Have you ever closed a book and felt like you’d truly been there? Like you could hear or smell or taste what the speaker had been? This means the writer did the job of constructing a sensorial experience. An important piece of pulling your reader into a scene with you is grounding your work in the five senses. In this generative workshop, we’ll read through examples of work from writers that do the job of anchoring their writing in sight, smell, touch, taste, and sound. With these examples in mind, alongside guiding prompts, together we’ll create the beginnings of some sensory-focused scenes that you can use as practice or inspiration for new work.
Zuri White-Gibson (she/her) is a Black, Queer hybrid-genre artist. Her creative work lives at the intersections of creative nonfiction, poetry, and both digital & analog collage. Zuri’s nonfiction essay work can be seen in publications like Prism and autostraddle, and her collage work has been featured in shows with The Chronic Pain Project (Portland, OR) and Black Queer GRITS (Atlas Gallery, Richmond, VA). After this summer, Zuri will have her MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College.
Zuri is new to The Porch. Welcome!
