Practice Space

These hour-long sessions hold space for you to practice and explore your creativity. Always focused on a theme, Practice Space provides structured guidance, writing prompts, and room to play. You don’t need to do anything to prepare—just show up ready to receive and write. Open to all experience levels and genres!
Drop-in sliding scale price $10-20

These sessions will be held via Zoom; automatically-generated closed-captioning will be available. All writing you do will be kept private (i.e., no required sharing). Sessions will typically not be recorded unless requested in advance.

Previous Practice Space Sessions

The Image Place: Out of Our Heads & Into Our Imagination

Sunday December 11th, 2022
10-11am PT/12-1pm CT/1-2pm ET
This session will focus on accessing our visual imagination. While we might bring serious ambition to our creative work, sometimes that seriousness gets in the way of the accomplishment we crave. In this session, we’ll explore how tapping into our visual imagination can be both deeply generative and entirely playful. We’ll use a combination of writing and drawing prompts—no previous experience or skills required!—to get out of our thinking brains and into the “image place.”

Dream Genres: Repurposed Structure and Borrowed Plots

Sunday November 27th, 2022
10-11am PT/12-1pm CT/1-2pm ET
November’s session of Practice Space will focus on form and genre. In this hour-long generative session, we’ll creatively work with the genres we love (or love to hate). We’ll approach form light-heartedly, towards conjuring new projects or releasing serious friction in an existing one. What could a dream literary newscast, detective novel, academic article, or recipe book hold? If your story was a podcast or a tarot card, what and how would it say? You are welcome to bring an existing project to work with, but it’s not required—you might create (or repurpose) a form for a story you don’t yet know exists.

Autumn, Ebbs, and Flows: Working with Flux

Sunday September 18th, 2022
10am PT/12pm CT/1pm ET
September’s Practice Space session will focus on transitions! The prompts will invite you to creatively tune into your awareness of the seasonal shift, as well as what “seasons” (or cycles) you’re moving through elsewhere in your life—such as a creative project, a personal goal, another challenge:
How do you feel or perceive the transition into autumn, and where (somatically, psychologically) does that awareness lie?
What rhythms or moments of transition are you experiencing in your work/life (creative or otherwise), and what does it mean or look like to honor them?
We’ll use reflective and generative prompts, so you will leave the session with a deeper sense of awareness and/or with writing you might continue to work with! This session is inspired by the Queen of Pentacles tarot card.