STARTING AGAIN: Reconnecting With Your Writing
with Lizzie Davis, Monika Woods, and Alex Higley
6 Weeks | Saturdays, 10 - 11:15 am ET (on Zoom) | October 7 - November 11, 2023
$300 | REGISTER
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Re-engaging with your creative process after time away from your project, or from consistent hours at the desk, can be difficult. Whatever the reason may be—a new job, new kid, illness, lack of inspiration or motivation—it takes little to permanently stall a writing project. This co-taught seminar presents three different approaches to breaking out of a creative funk. Each instructor will lead two of six class sessions, and each will present a novel, a work of criticism or nonfiction, and a short story or selection of poems. Instructors will share how the assigned texts have fueled their own productivity and restored enthusiasm for their work after a creative drought. This course will not take the form of a workshop; our focus will be on close-reading and open discussion of the material. Each student will receive a curated reading list tailored to their writing project or areas of interest.
Readings from Lizzie Davis
Selections from Memorial by Alice Oswald
The Nature Book by Tom Comitta
Transgressive Circulation by Johannes Göransson
Readings from Monika Woods
“Who Will Greet You at Home” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
“Two Paths for the Personal Essay” by Merve Emre
“Two Paths for the Novel” by Zadie Smith
Readings from Alex Higley
“Office Hours” by Ling Ma
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World by Donald Antrim
Why People Photograph by Robert Adams
Lizzie Davis is a translator and writer. Her recent translations include Juan Cárdenas's The Devil of the Provinces and Ornamental (a finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize); Elena Medel's The Wonders, cotranslated with Thomas Bunstead; and work by Valeria Luiselli and Daniela Tarazona.
Monika Woods is a literary agent, writer, editor, and founder of Triangle House. She is a graduate of SUNY Buffalo and the Columbia Publishing Course, a board member of the AALA, and has worked closely with leading voices in contemporary literature over her decade-long publishing career.
Alex Higley is the author of Cardinal (nominated for the PEN/Bingham) and Old Open. His novel True Failure is forthcoming from Coffee House Press. He is an editor and cofounder of Great Place Books.