Grackle art by eliasknorandelinedda
Ever seen a ghost? How about a UFO? Maybe Mothman or the Jersey Devil?
Whatever you saw, do you want to write about it?
This five-session workshop is for people with a healthy sense of curiosity. You can write as a believer or a skeptic, an essayist, fiction writer, or poet. What matters is that you come willing to interrogate yourself through your writing and make space for others to safely do the same.
Throughout the class, we’ll approach paranormal stories not as pure science fiction or horror, but rather as deeply personal narratives that connect us to something larger than ourselves. We’ll generate work, study published writing, and provide each other with warm, supportive feedback via an informal workshop. Bring your near death experiences, supernatural encounters, and chance glimpses beyond the veil. Leave with an essay, short story, or mini-chapbook that captures in words our paradoxical relationship with the unknown.
When the class is finished students will have the chance to participate in a public reading at Antidote Coffee.
Sonia Hamer is a writer from Houston, TX. She holds an MFA from the University of Houston, where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow, and the recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Nonfiction, the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Fiction, and the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing at Rice University. She served as an Assistant Nonfiction Editor and Online Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast Journal. Her Pushcart-Prize nominated writing has been published by Creative Nonfiction’s True Story, The University of Texas Press, and others.
