Walking as Practice: A Six-Week Generative Writing Workshop (UPCOMING)
Exploring Walking as a Way of Making New Work.

​Description
In this six-week generative writing workshop, we’ll explore walking as a way of making new work. Through discussion, short readings, and generative prompts, we’ll consider how movement shapes attention and how those observations can be developed into writing on and off the page.

This workshop emphasizes generative writing rather than formal critique. Participants will be encouraged to walk between sessions to gather source material and return with notes, observations, and drafts to build from.

​Each session includes:
• A brief introduction and group discussion
• Focused in-class writing time with prompts
• Space for sharing and reflection

​Drawing on writers and artists who incorporate walking into their practice, we’ll touch on questions of memory, mapping, documentation, archiving, performance, and attention. We’ll take inspiration from short readings by writers and artists including Matsuo Bashō, Virginia Woolf, W.G. Sebald, Teju Cole, Esther Kinsky, Adrian Piper, Francis Alÿs, Yuji Agematsu, Werner Herzog, and Gaston Bachelard, among others.

​Writing in this workshop functions both as an expressive practice in its own right and as a foundation that can translate into work across other media.

​Writers and artists of all levels who are curious about the relationship between movement, observation, and writing are welcome.

​By the end of the workshop, students will leave with:
• A body of new writing
• Sharper observational tools
• Practical strategies for gathering and shaping material
• A renewed awareness of how movement and environment can inform creative work
• A flexible framework for using walking to research and generate writing