Seeing Again: Digging Deeper for Revision

We’ve moved online! All workshops will be conducted through Zoom, an interactive platform that allows you to participate in exercises and contribute to group conversation in your workshops. The day before your workshop you’ll receive an email with a link to Zoom for your workshop session. 

Member price:$65
Deadline to Register: April 9, 11:59 pm

Instructor: Anais Salibian

Once you have an initial draft, editing is not the next step. Discovering a new vision is. “Beneath the external justifications for writing are secret internal motivations, and beneath these are subconscious impulses and great, pulsing mysteries we sense but cannot say. These appear in our writing’s inner story…that current of emotion and thought that moves in and through the plot.” (Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew, Living Revision)

In this workshop, we will undertake a series of writing exercises designed to allow us to see more deeply into our material to find its true shape and meaning. We’ll ask questions that invite uncovering what is trying to emerge from our writing and what may be getting in our way. In the process, revision will change from a daunting chore to a deeply engaging and heart-opening exploration.

Recommended Bibliography:

• Living Revision: A Writer’s Craft as Spiritual Practice by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

Anais Salibian holds a Master’s degree in English literature and a Certification in Secondary Education. She has taught writing classes at Writers & Books since 1989. She’s currently teaching classes on memoir, essay, and crafting sentences. In her Writing to Heal classes, she integrates story writing with structured journaling and poetry exercises to expand and deepen insight and healing. Her published works are all creative nonfiction. In 2004, she received Writers & Books Teacher of Adults Award for the Creation and Appreciation of Literature.