Six Weeks, Six Themes:
A Gathering for Generative Writing
Tuesdays in February and March 2025
Six Weeks, Six Themes: A Gathering for Generative Writing
Home. Body. Food. Loss. Love. Home, again.
Join us for a six-week generative writing workshop where we will read and write with specific themes in mind and heart. We’ll begin by reading short passages from literature that feature writing on the following: home, the body, loss and love. Zadie Smith, Ben Okri, JoAnn Beard, Laila Lalami, Kiese Laymon, Hala Alyan, Mary Karr and Maya Angelou are just a few of the writers whose work we’ll consider. Then, we will use this material along with writing prompts designed to highlight the week’s topic and we will go to the blank page and write sections of our own. All genres and levels are welcome. This is primarily a generative class with no formal, in class critique process but there will be time to share work within the group as well as schedule one-to-one meetings with instructors, if desired.
Tuesdays: 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/11, 3/18 (no class March 4th)
Student reading/spoken word event 3/25 7-9pm
The Writers Room
740 Broadway at Astor Place, 7th floor
New York, New York 10003
$490 Zelle / $510 to pay by credit card
Kathy Curto teaches at Sarah Lawrence College/The Writing Institute and Montclair State University as well as several nonprofit organizations and writing centers in the metropolitan area. She is the author of Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, on NPR, and in the anthologies And There Were Red Geraniums Everywhere (released in both Italian and English) and Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now. She has also published widely in a variety of literary journals and magazines. Kathy’s piece, “Still Cooking Side by Side” considered a “Modern Love in miniature” by The New York Times, was included in The Best of Tiny Love Stories in August 2021. She is co-founder of Key to the Castle Workshop and serves on the board of the Italian American Writers Association. Kathy lives with her family in the Hudson Valley. Please visit: www.kathycurto.com.