If you’ve ever wondered how to make a place spring to life on the page, this is your chance to learn and practice. In this three-hour generative course, we’ll explore techniques for evoking setting—whether you’re describing another country or your own backyard. Through discussion, short reading examples, and guided prompt sessions, we’ll cover the nuances of capturing on-the-go impressions, awakening all five senses, recreating atmosphere and vivid imagery, depicting both landscapes and urban spaces, and avoiding clichés. We’ll also delve into the multidimensional ways setting can be articulated, beyond physical details. And best of all, we’ll begin the practice of sharpening our attention so that wherever we are, we notice more deeply. This course will elevate journal entries, fiction, memoir, and poetry, and it’s open to writers of all experience levels.

Cost: $115

Target audience: essayists, memoirists, poets, novelists, journal-keepers—writers of all kinds and experience levels