In this hands-on writing workshop, the instructions are simple: keep your hand moving, dig deep, give yourself permission to write badly, tell the truth. You’ll get vivid prompts to get hands moving, and we’ll write in quick bursts. When we’ve finished, we’ll share what we wrote.

For experienced writers and novices alike, this practice is a powerful tool for cutting through the noise and discovering or re-discovering your authentic voice.

This study group for those 50 and over will meet for two hours on Tuesdays from January 22 and February 5, 12 and 26.

Instructor Tanya Shaffer is an award-winning playwright and author of the travel memoir Somebody’s Heart is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa. Her stories and essays have appeared on Salon.com and in numerous anthologies.