We will read and write with the objective of bringing places to life. This course for those 50 and over is open to novel writing, short stories, memoir and life writing, as well as
poetry.

Whether writing of home or places of exile -- we will move through time with characters and through ideas -- by the examination of setting. Whether you bring material or an idea, or neither-- we will get ‘there’. We may generate new work or prioritize workshop activity (and we’ll be reading a variety of excerpts for inspiration). Be open. Be willing. Be kind.

Instructor Clarisse Baleja Saidi, a novelist and recent graduate of the Helen Zell MFA Program at the University of Michigan, will conduct these 90 minute sessions on Tuesdays from January 23 through March 27.