Workshops

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Here is a description of what happens in workshop.

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In light of Covid 19 all workshops will be held on ZOOM.  Stay safe!

“Write, don’t think.”  Ray Bradbury

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Small writing workshops
with Rosemary Moore

Write in the comfort of your home…

Have you found that goal oriented solitary writing can sometimes jam your flow? My fun, eclectic methods and experienced guidance will free your writing in unexpected and productive ways.

TESTIMONIALS FROM WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Joan Larkin, poet: – Rosemary Moore is an exceptional teacher, just the guide I needed to open the door to fiction I wanted to write but was afraid I couldn’t. Skilled, innovative, generous, attentive to individual needs and strengths, Rosemary creates a safe space for discovering and pursuing work that’s uniquely one’s own. Drawing on her wealth of creative experience, she offers strategies for tapping intuitive resources, and support for exploring possibilities of structure. Somehow my writing anxiety melts away with her prompts, and something unexpected and useful happens in every session.

Arthur Strimling, playwright, storyteller: Rosemary Moore’s workshop stretched, flexed and toned my writing muscles. The combination of a completely inviting, encouraging atmosphere, a small group of mature, engaged fellow writers, and Rosemary’s imaginative prompts and love for the very act of writing, got us all going every time. I wrote stuff I never would have imagined I would and never would have done on my own. And the feedback from my colleagues and Rosemary just encouragedme to go on.

Melissa Connelly, novelist   I’ve been in too many writing workshops to count, and rarely have I found a teacher as gifted as Rosemary Moore. She pays careful attention to the atmosphere she sets and the direction she gives. Her prompts are both brilliant and flexible. The class really helped open up my second novel—something that had been paralyzing me. Her home is a beautiful space, and surrounded by art and interesting objects, you feel the creative process being honored and nurtured.

Lisa Chess   Actor/Director  In the lovely, supportive environment of Rosemary’s home, participants were encouraged, using diverse and fascinating prompts, to write without restriction or edit. “Write without lifting your hand from the page” (or fingers from the keys). “Raw”.  I loved that. Though I’ve been writing for about two years, I feel like a novice. Rosemary’s process helped me to open my mind and I think my work made significant progress.  The six week workshop had a kind of magic in it and I recommend it unequivocally.

Leila Gastil  Fiction writer/Memoirist Wonder if you’ll ever know how much CHUNK (all day workshop) meant to me? It was pure fun. That safe space and structure you provided connected me to the joy of writing. JOY. In the following days, I felt more myself in the world. For that Saturday, I let that part of myself live and be visible. I’m so grateful. and YES, I’d like to do it again., if you’ll have me.

Rob Lenihan, blogger, novelist, journalist : Rosemary Moore’s workshop was a fabulous experience for me. I got to work with a great teacher and extremely talented classmates. The class pushed me out of my comfort zone and gave me the confidence to experiment with my writing. I loved it.

Gil Ortiz, memoirist : I think the key for me was the safety I felt in the room with you, Rosemary, and my classmates. You made it clear that there was no right or wrong way to write — just to write all over the place, crazy like. Your prompts forced me to write things I really didn’t expect to write. Getting feedback from classmates was great. It helped to unfreeze a little where I felt stuck in my writing.

Stacey Gladstone  fiction writer As a new writer, I found Rosemary’s workshop to be revelatory. I never knew I had so many stories lurking inside of me but Rosemary supplied me with the keys to unlock them. Her prompts and visualizations cued fragments of dreams, memory, and fantasy that I was able to access immediately. The safety of the environment allowed me to explore that access. I am so looking forward to continuing with her guidance in future sessions.

Gabrielle Prisco, novelist  Rosemary Moore’s workshop was transformative and I suspect I will return to her living room in the future. It opened new doors inside me and on the page. As I recently told someone about her: she is an alchemist.

Sarah Berry Tschinkel, performer, writer, Jungian Psychoanalyst    Rosemary created a safe and inviting space for me to explore new material and areas of interest with a small cohort of other writers. She encourages access to those mysterious and unknown parts of self through the creative use of prompts and visual stimuli, and this varies this weekly. Her warmth and knowledge gave me the confidence to share my work with others, and to benefit from their support.

Annabel Lee poet, writer  If there’s any formula for these workshops it’s “write—don’t think.” These are intimate workshops. What gets written in the group, what gets said, stays within the group and only lives inside each of our writer’s heads and in what we are working on.The participants came from varied backgrounds and all those in the group I was in had great stories to tell and intense commitment to their own writing. In that group there was a nurse, a college professor, a musician, and a couple of others. The youngest participant was in his twenties, and the oldest probably in his seventies.

We received very specific prompts, which I found helpful, although there was no compunction to use them. They key to writing from the prompts was the quality of letting go, letting go of the gnarly critic inside our heads, and not letting ourselves be concerned about the quantity of writing we got done—it was about process, not the product.