Saturday/ or/ Sunday 10:30am- 5:30pm EST
Announcing Rosemary Moore’s
CHUNK SUMMER 2025
A One or Two day Generative writing workshop
On Zoom
Cost: One day: $225 Two days: $400.
Beginners welcome/all genres
Two days of UNINTERRUPTED WRITING/ Seven writers
Generative writing is the process of creating new material in the moment. Rosemary will guide you through a flexible prompt created to spark your imagination or memory in unexpected ways.
Use the results of the prompt a lot or not at all during your writing day.
CHUNK is not a race to write the most pages,
CHUNK is a space to write wildly, quietly or in between:a chunk of pages, chapter, an act, a short story
OR
a life story you’ve been burning to get down on paper
OR
just write a lot…explore/experiment.
Write, don’t think/ Make a mess! If you care to generate material for an existing project, lmk and I will give you background on this option.
- By the end of each day you’ll have a substantial, albeit rough, new piece of writing
- Write long hand or laptop or combo
- Rosemary will be available for consult and encouragement.
- Be on zoom during writing time OR NOT!
The workshop will be broken up with a lunch break and pauses built in. At the end of the day writers will listen to each others work. Rosemary will respond and if time others will respond. At very least other writers can respond to work in the zoom chat.
E-mail me at roseleap229@gmail.com with questions or to reserve a spot.
TESTIMONIALS:
- Being a part of Rosemary’s writing group has revolutionized my relationship with writing and how I feel about myself as a writer. Her brilliant format, deep presence, and generous spirit combined with the talent and kindness of the other members allowed me to find new freedom and confidence in my writing. HIGHLY recommend joining one of her groups if you have even an inkling to write. Shannon Cruz-Herr memoirist
- Rosemary Moore is a magician—she weaves surprising and brilliant prompts into quick reads that push me into inhabiting characters and regions of my imagination I would not go to alone. This is a gift, and I count on her particular sensitivity and innovative ways of presenting alternative structures to guide me. In a dedicated, small group, she creates safety and inspires imaginative stretching which makes me happy to travel towards the pulse of what’s happening on the page and get out of my own way. Rosemary’s generosity and joyful intelligence are always present. Beatrix Gates, poet
- Rosemary loves writers. And writing. And literature. With taste and originality. And, in deeply feminist ways she is generous and modest. Like superpowers. She create what the Kabbalists call a tsim tsum: a vacuum that draws out creativity. Arthur Strimling, director, writer, storyteller
- I really appreciated how thoughtful the prompts were, how simultaneously scaffolded and free they were. Jessica Bauman, director, filmmaker
- Rosemary Moore’s workshop is the ideal setting for one to develop one’s creative craft. The prompts are original and inspiring. Rosemary also leads everyone through a meditation that really works to get everyone in the zone before they write. Worth mentioning too is that the environment in the workshop is such that one feels comfortable sharing what they’ve written. Lastly the workshop has not only inspired me to take up writing, but has resulted in more joy in my life. David Telson –composer, musician, fiction writer
- The chunk day was a lifesaver—helped me find my way back into the novel. It seemed there was time for everything. Joan Larkin, poet
- Rosemary’s gentle preparation and creative prompts revealed a part of my imagination I didn’t know I had, and inspired writing I had no idea I was capable of! Her generosity and genuine curiosity bring forth the best in everyone in the group. I can’t wait until my next workshop. Leslie Weber, fiction writer/memoirist
- Rosemary’s workshop had a kind of magic in it and I recommend it unequivocally. Lisa Chess, playwright/screenwriter
BIO
Rosemary Moore’s plays, SIDE STREET, A SLIGHT KIDNAPPING, THE BAR PLAY, AUNT PIECES, PAIN OF PINK EVENINGS and PINEAPPLE have been read or staged at the Cherry Lane Alternative, The New Group, New York Theater Workshop, New Georges, Manhattan Theater Source and HERE. Her plays have been directed by Michael Sexton, Ian Morgan, Jessica Bauman, Sonja Moser, Tony Kushner, John Augustine and Davis McCallum. Her play “The Pain of Pink Evenings” was published in The Best American Short Plays of 2001 by Applause Books. Her one-woman shows, LIVING ON THE MEDIAN STRIP, CARTOON ON TIME, and NEVER STARE AT THE SUN were produced by Home for Contemporary Theater and Art and directed by Lori Herbison and Roberta Levine. Rosemary has received support from Breadloaf Writers Conference, Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Cherry Lane Mentor Project. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and is an Associate Artist at New Georges. Rosemary holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where she studied with Maria Irene Fornes and Tony Kushner. She taught writing at Rutgers University for eleven years. Now Rosemary teaches writing workshops to writers and non-writers from NYC, Arizona, Maine, California, Hawaii, Argentina and Indiana on zoom in her living room or in person in her living room.
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