Writing Workshops (six weeks)
The Little Nights Creative Writing Workshop welcome writers of all experience levels, working in fiction and creative non-fiction.
Each class includes generative prompts that introduce new craft approaches, with a focus on exploration, experimentation, and talking through your work with other writers.
In addition to sharing the work you make in class, each participant will have the opportunity to submit a longer piece (10 pages, double-spaced) to be workshopped by the group, with the aim of helping you make your writing the best version of itself.
Six-week workshops cap at 5 writers. All genres welcome, no experience necessary.
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Writing Past The Page (six weeks)
It’s often hard to make time for your writing, and even harder to feel like you’re using that time well. Too often, once you’ve finally warmed up, you have to stop and return to the rest of your life. But what if you could stay warmed up all the time?
In this six-week, generative course, we’ll explore ways of taking your writing practice beyond your desk, starting with building your own writing sketchbook. Unlike a notebook, a sketchbook isn’t for ideas to be used and developed later, but a place where you can practice writing for its own sake. Your writing sketchbook is a space for you to observe the world through language, and a tool that encourages you to stay open to those observations more often.
Through in-class prompts and ongoing assignments, we’ll slowly build our sketchbooks, expanding your relationship to writing from the status of your current project to the way you interact with the world and producing plenty of new pages in the process. Then, when it is time for your project, you’ll be warmed up and ready to go. All genres are welcome, no experience is necessary.
Course Outline:
Week 1: Building your notebook
Week 2: Observational writing
Week 3: Using your assumptions
Week 4: Finding new sentences
Week 5: Tableaus and still lives
Week 6: Looking back to look forward
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Writing Without Thinking (half-day)
How much time do you spend thinking about what you’re going to write instead of writing it? What would it mean to become, as Annie Dillard describes it, “transparent and hollow, a channel for the work”?
In this one-day class, we’ll experiment with automatic writing, the blind contour method, and other ways of writing without thinking as we consider the effect of conscious intent on our writing processes. Together, we’ll explore new methods of observation and put them into practice so we can approach our writing with a greater emphasis on play and discovery.
In addition to the writing we’ll do together, we’ll also discuss strategies for sustaining these approaches independently after the class is over. Writers of all genres are welcome and no prior experience with these methods is necessary.
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Your Instructor
Josh Krigman (he/him) is a writer, teacher, and facilitator in New York City.
He has taught creative writing at Hunter College, the United Nations International School, 826NYC, The Writer’s Rock, and for National Geographic’s Student Expeditions. Currently, he is a private writing coach and instructor for writers of all ages and levels of experience.
He has been awarded residencies from Vermont Studio Center, and his work has appeared in The Summerset Review, Akashic Books, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in fiction from Hunter College.
Interested in one-on-one feedback or developing your practice with Josh? Learn more or email him at little.nights.events@gmail.com
