Writing the Body: 4 Week Creative Writing Workshop

When:
Sunday, May 31, 2026 12:00p -
2:00p

Where:
Online event
Surrounding areas
Boston, MA 02110

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Admission:
$350.00

Hosted by:
...
witch_lit Erica Anzalone

Categories:
Art, Classes, LGBTQ+, Virtual

Event website:
www.witchlit.us

4 Week Generative Creative Writing Workshop led by Dr. Erica Anzalone held on Zoom.

How do we make the body come alive on the page? In this generative creative writing class, we’ll explore the lyric essay and poetry through the five senses, using Mary Karr’s Sacred Carnality and Matthew Zapruder’s Make It Strange as guides. Writers will transform abstraction and cliché into vivid, embodied language through the technique of defamiliarization.

Each week, we’ll focus on one or more senses—sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch—as portals into the body’s strangeness, beauty, and complexity. Through reading, discussion, and in-class prompts, we’ll explore how defamiliarization can turn the familiar into the uncanny, the grotesque, and the sublime. Along the way, we’ll engage the body in extremis—pain, illness, addiction, pleasure, and transcendence.

For poets, lyric essayists, hybrid writers, or anyone interested in bringing an embodied lyricism to their work. All levels welcome.

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