2025 Summer Workshop Program
Our Tiered Tuition System asks you to choose one of the following tuition levels:
$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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In this workshop, we will explore the body’s ecstasies, vagaries, monstrosities, and failures. Participants will be encouraged to use both fiction and nonfiction to unpack questions like: How does the body hold texture, memory, metaphor? What is our relationship to the bodies of others? What can the genre of body horror teach us about ourselves? How do we write about desire, pleasure, pain, change, illness, and death? The class is a mix of readings, conversation, and generative/responsive writing; please come prepared to write and share.
Please note: there will be one day of overlap with visual artist Ilana Savdie’s “The Monstrous Body” workshop, which will be running simultaneously. On that day, both classes will be doing a mix of written and visual prompts in a shared space. No visual art experience necessary!
Biography
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the memoir In the Dream House, the graphic novel The Low, Low Woods, and the short story collection Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
