Dance your way back to writing in kind, creative community.

The Write Moves is a live online workshop that incorporates mini-dance parties & inviting writing prompts to support creative habits, unblock ideas and feelings, pursue joy, and take respite from the everyday.

Sunday 3/28 @ 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PT / 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET on Zoom

++++March class is a special workshop co-led by Cat Tyc+++

“Who are They ?”

USING THE TAROT TO FIND YOUR CHARACTER

Inspired by the work of writer and tarot expert Rachel Pollack, we will use the Celtic Cross spread to read the narrative of a character we want to create or the narrative of our own lives to incorporate into a piece of writing.

We will have a main reading to work from or fellow tarot / oracle card practitioners can bring their own deck to make their own as we dance and write together.

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The Write Moves is a live online workshop that combines free movement and writing time to generate creative writing and creative practice.

It incorporates mini-dance parties & inviting writing prompts to support creative habits, unblock ideas and feelings, pursue joy, and take respite from the everyday.

Each session includes opportunities to dance freely, to write with abandon, and to collaborate and share with fellow participants.

The Write Moves is a workshop designed for:

• Creative Unblocking
• Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry & Hybrid Writers
• Journalers & Dreamers
• Breathing, Stretching & Shimmying
• Building Creative Practice
• Finding the side door to your important, difficult, and untold stories

Participants call The Write Moves a “quarantine antidote,” “opportunity for chance encounters,” and a “bonbon of unexpected delight!” In addition to the joy spun from exploring movement (at your own level) to songs like this, participants say they write a lot and leave with a “sense of community” and welcome “vulnerability” they didn’t have when they arrived.

BIOS

MOLLY THORNTON | The Write Moves is led by LA-based multi-genre writer and writing coach Molly Thornton. Her writing has appeared in The LA Times, They Said collaborative writing anthology, The Seattle Globalist, Lavender Review, baldhip magazine, and more.

She is a Lambda Literary Fellow and City of West Hollywood Pride Poet. Molly coaches clients in creative writing and teaches regularly online and at literary centers including Hugo House, Beyond Baroque, and the LA LGBT Center. Her class The Write Moves changes the experience of writing from chore to creative dance party. Say hi at mollythorntonwrites.com | @mollythornton_writes

CAT TYC | Cat Tyc is a writer/artist who has three chapbooks, An Architectural Seance {dancing girl press & studio}, CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative) and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). Recent writing has appeared in Maggot Brain, The Recluse and more upcoming in Fence.

Her video work has screened at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, and Kassel Fest. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext and MTVu.

She has been granted residencies and fellowships at Signal Culture, The Flaherty Seminar and has received support from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts.

She is the Director of The Home School in Hudson, NY which is a summer intensive / online program with a mission to infuse poetry education with an interdisciplinary approach grounded in the fine arts and multimedia. She has taught writing for several CUNY/SUNY branches, Rutgers University and Northeastern University. She is based in Brooklyn and Hudson, NY.