Tarot Card 17, The Star
After the chaos of the past year when so much of the world became a desert of drought, destoying vast tracts of farmlands, then burning trees and animals. Rain should be welcome, but it slides away into floods. A jungle…
The World and what you make of it
It is what you make of it, your world. But is it really all you’ve got? Your hands representing creativity, your feet representing mobility, your senses like windows to all that surrounds you. Touch is the panorama, your skin the…
Tarot, a Cure for Writer’s Block?
The term writer’s block was first coined in New York City in 1947 by Edmund Bergler, a well-known disciple of Sigmund Freud. Bergler called it a form of “psychic masochism, the unconscious wish to defeat one’s conscious aims, and to…
Digital Markup Methods Explained…
Back in the days of meeting face-to-face, workshop participants would typically bring along their printed and marked-up copies of the works to be discussed. After the session ended, we would give our markups to the writer. Now, in the Zoom…
Playwriting Workshop for Stage or Screen… with Gina Stevensen
A biweekly workshop series beginning Thursday, June 17 from 5- 7 PM led by professional and award-winning playwright Gina Stevenson will explore all aspects of playwriting and screenwriting. Gina Stevensen is a playwright, performer and teaching artist formerly based in…
Gina Stevensen Featured in Playwriting & Screenwriting Workshop
Playwright, screenwriter, dramaturg, and writing instructor… Her play THE COLONY was a 2019 winner of the Columbia@Roundabout New Play Reading Series. The reading series awards three playwrights from their current MFA class and recent alumni with a monetary prize as…
Ever-shifting Sands at the Last Chance Texaco…
I am finally beginning to emerge from quarantine. On Friday, after the workshop, I got the J&J poke. After hearing about a biker friend who got Covid, I became even more cautious. I am walking pretty well, and decided on Sunday to…
Afrofuturism Watch Party, Apr 24 at 7 PM
Octavia Butler was a sci-fi author prominent in the 70s, 80s, and the 90s. She died in 2006, but seems to be having a current revival of interest. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became…
Saturday Watch Party 4/3
Join us at this Watch Party to learn from the masters including: Amy Tan on: Memory, Truth, and ImaginationAmy walks us through her process of using emotional memory and real-life events to write fiction by sharing her own childhood memories.…