| Taking Flight

Join Beth Kephart’s 'Taking Flight' workshop to master sentence craft, rhythm, and revision. Perfect for writers of all genres and stages seeking new ways to think about the possibilities and power of language.

Whether we are writing long form memoir or flash fiction, prose poetry or speculative hybrids, every sentence—and every arrangement of sentences—matters.

But how do we find the right words and fit them into the right places? How do we master sonics, syllables, scenes, stories, and pace? Elongation and compression? Density and white space? These questions arise not just at the start of every project, but deep into the crafting and revision.

Join Beth for “Taking Flight,” a workshop designed for writers of all genres and stages seeking new ways to think about the possibilities and power of language. We’ll begin by building a handmade blank journal—a home for the thoughts and notes of the week—and by talking about the universal in our work. We will subsequently enter a curated world of art, music, and literature, taking literary inspiration and instruction from John Singer Sargent, Agnes Martin, Gustav Mahler, Elizabeth Hardwick, Michael Ondaatje, and others through a series of illustrated morning presentations. In the early afternoons, we’ll write to a progression of elevated, guided prompts—work that we’ll share with each other toward the end of each working day. Each writer will be given a half hour of individual time with Beth, to talk through questions concerning work in progress.