In this generative online workshop, writers will be prompted to write new pieces and read them fresh from the page to receive purely positive feedback. After a short warm-up prompt, we'll "write without the brakes on" for four minutes, and read these fresh micro-moments aloud to provide collaborative inspiration. A series of possible portals are offered to take off-screen and inspire writing for thirty more minutes. We then return to the group to share and listen for what we love. We highlight craft when we ask: What's working? What stands out and will stick? What shines and why?
This one-time session is ideal for all levels of experience and all genres, for those who like (or would like to try) writing quietly among others, reading fresh work aloud, and supporting others. Writers take away a clutch of strategies and prompts to use on their own. Sparks! has the potential to become an ongoing group.
Jodi Paloni is the founder of Maine Coast Writers Workshops and the author of an award-winning book, They Could Live with Themselves, a collection of linked stories set in rural New England, a finalist for the Maine Book Award and winner of an IPPY Silver Medal.
Her stories and essays have been published widely, both online and in print and she has been supported by a number of writing residencies and fellowships, most notably Storyknife Writers Retreat and Kenyon Review Summer Writing where she was a Peter Taylor Fellow. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MS in Environmental Studies from Antioch New England Graduate School, and is a certified Gestalt Creativity Coach, a Gateless Writing Method Teacher, and a Sequencing: Making is Knowing Facilitator.
Jodi is new to The Porch. Welcome!
