PRACTICE SPACE: A PROSE WORKSHOP

How do we write (in) the present moment? How, as writers, can our practice encourage us to act as conduits for the unstable present and possible future? How can we write the past without conceding to nostalgia’s flattening effects? These are just some of the questions that will fuel discussion and written exploration in this 7-week workshop. Workshop members will spend time both writing generatively together and reading and responding to each other’s work in the spirit of supportive critique. We’ll also read and discuss brief published works and consider other-than-text media. All experience levels and genres/styles of sentence-based writing welcome (and if you write something other than sentences and this seems up your alley, do reach out).

Workshop will be held in my backyard in N. Portland (Arbor Lodge). COVID vaccination required.

Tuesdays, 7-9pm / 7 weeks (7/9-8/20)

 Fee: $400 general*$250 lower-SES 

 Interested? Email Sara at sara@sarajaffewriter.com. Please sign up by 6/30.

About the instructor: Sara Jaffe is a queer, anti-Zionist Jewish writer living in Portland, OR. She has experience teaching creative writing at numerous colleges and universities, including Reed College, University of Oregon, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Low-Residency MFA. She’s the author of Dryland, a novel, and her collection of short stories, Hurricane Envy, will be published by Rescue Press in 2026. Her stories, essays, and criticism have appeared in publications including Catapult, Fence, BOMB, NOON, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.