Unexpected Threads

This class, led by Kesselring Prize-winning playwright Mona Mansour, will be part meditative experience/part restart of your writing routine. In these increasingly tense times, it can seem overwhelming to even start new work, let alone sit down to write in an extended way.

In this workshop, participants will be together in a shared experience, and learn to tap into the moment-by-moment, instead of the ‘this is what I should be doing right now.’

Each session will begin with students sharing what’s on their minds at the moment, which will lead into a timed writing session. Timed sessions could also come out of other forms of art or conversations. The thoughts/threads that come out of these timed writing sessions can be strung together as longer works or can serve as spurs to new work. The hope is that everyone will be inspired by the process, and each other, to find new ways into their writing.