Note from the Director: This workshop was offered in 2020. Learn more about this year’s workshops.
Into the Thicket:
A Free-Writing Workshop for All Genres
Writing workshop in New Jersey
January 17-20, 2020
Led by Anndee Hochman
Some call it automatic writing, or stream-of-consciousness writing, or morning pages. Whatever your name for it, free-writing is a crucial stage of the writing process—a way to explore, discover, experiment, follow your impulses and generate a bounty of rich, often surprising new material. In this workshop, we will examine the theory and practice of free-writing, respond to open-ended prompts for multiple genres (poetry, fiction, nonfiction and memoir), discuss the obstacles that hamper our writing and learn strategies for resolving them. Most of the weekend will be devoted to drafting new work, but there will be time to share and hear what resonates with others.
*Limited to just 12 participants.*
“Any anxiety I had when I came to the Winter Getaway quickly disappeared. The conference is expertly run with beautiful accommodations, a comfortable tone for writing and sharing and a sea of talented writers.”
~ Jane, Hackettstown, NJ
Biography
Anndee Hochman is a journalist, essayist, storyteller and teaching artist. In addition to her weekly column, “The Parent Trip,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Anndee’s work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Purple Clover, Broad Street Review and on WHYY’s Speak Easy. She is the author of Anatomies: A Novella and Stories (Picador 2000) and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home (The Eighth Mountain Press, 1994). Her newest storytelling platform is The Moth, where she has won two story slams and took part in Philly’s GrandSlam in May 2019. For more than 20 years, Anndee has taught writing to people of all ages in schools, senior centers and a small fishing village on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Her website is www.anndeehochman.com. Read Anndee’s piece, “Long Distance Call,” originally in Purple Clover.
