Monday, July 15th, 2024

Live Seminar via Zoom from 6:00PM - 8:00PM EST

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Instructor Jennifer Mattson teaches creative writing at New York University's School of Professional Studies. She is a writer, editor, journalist, and former network news producer for CNN, CNN International, and National Public Radio, and the former managing editor of Asia Society. Jennifer’s writing and reporting have appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, USA TODAY, The Boston Globe, CBS News, GlobalPost.com, The Women’s Review of Books, and Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. She writes an online column for Psychology Today and reports on wellness, news, yoga, healthy living and mindfulness, books, arts, and culture.

Learn more about Jennifer in our Meet the Teaching Artist series.

You love to write, or perhaps you find it torture. Either way, you wish you were doing more of it.

In this class, we'll get you writing again through tools, exercises, and discussions from famous creativity and writing experts such as Natalie Goldberg, author of "Writing Down The Bones" and Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way." Those include exercises in class that will get you writing no matter what, how to write a messy first draft, and the five writing rules.

This class is for anyone who wants to write or write more. It's part experiential writing, part lecture, and part getting to know yourself (to get the blocks out of the way.)

Bring a pen and paper or a laptop. We will be writing by hand at first, but you can bring your laptop if you prefer it. You'll be glad you took the plunge.

Jennifer will provide excerpts from Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down The Bones, and Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way.