In this two-hour workshop, we will explore how connecting physical experience to creative expression can deepen our writing. Through gentle movement, breathwork, sensory exercises, and the use of extended metaphor, participants will practice writing with greater presence and emotional truth within a supportive community of writers. This session invites writers to move beyond the purely cerebral and access the body as a source of voice and authenticity. Please dress comfortably and bring a journal or pen and paper.
• In-Class Writing Lift: Medium
• Homework: None
• Workshopping Drafts: None
Michelle Donice is the author of The Other Side of Through (Balboa Press) and Following Your North Star (Atmosphere Press). She is a graduate of Sierra Nevada College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing (now part of the University of Nevada system). Her short fiction has been featured in Midnight and Indigo Lit, Free Spirit, Clockhouse, New Delta Review, and Flash Fiction for Flash Memory (Anchala Studios). Additionally, her writing has earned her placement in the following writing residencies and retreats: Mont Blanc/Chamonix Writing by Writers, Colgate Writers’ Conference, AWP Writer to Agent, Corporeal Writing’s Sitka. Seed. Self Generative Retreat, Chesapeake Writers’ Conference, Anaphora Arts Writing Residency, Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, the Hedgebrook Mother Tree Residency. Her short story “The Buffalo Soldier” was nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize. Michelle lives in Nashville with her husband and two dogs. She teaches yoga and writing and often incorporates themes of spirituality, African American culture, and women's empowerment in her fiction.
Michelle is new to The Porch. Welcome!
