Your Body, Your Story
Tue, Mar 10
|Zoom
You’ll dive into your personal story archive through body-focused prompts that extend beyond our session. Learn new ways to access memory by collaborating with your eyes, belly, hips, feet, and more, and discover how the body can transform forgotten moments into vivid, visceral scenes.
Time & Location
Mar 10, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Zoom
Guests
About the event
Our body is the most reliable record-keeper of life experiences, much more so than our brain and what we like to call “memory.” For writers, our embodied experience is a vast and often-overlooked treasure chest of powerful stories.
In this "The Practice of Writing" session, you will learn about the importance of tapping into the story-archive that is your body and how useful it can be to mine your body parts to re-member, or make whole, past experiences that have brought you to this point in your life. Together, we will consider excerpts from authors whose bodies feed remembering, and whose beautiful, memorable writing inspires us by its sheer physicality. If you are a fiction writer, what we cover will motivate you to use more embodied writing as you create your characters and their motivations.
You will dig into your own exclusive story archive with body-focused writing prompts and ideas…