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One-Time Workshops

One-time workshops are a great way to get to know us and the way we work with students. Our workshops are high-energy and engaging; we aim to ignite imaginations and boost self-confidence.

Workshops generally last two hours, but can be adjusted to match your school’s needs. They can be tailored to accommodate groups of up to thirty-six students. Each workshop focuses on a particular literary genre – playwriting, poetry, or prose fiction – and results in a mini-performance or a piece of writing that students can be proud of and take home.

Announcing our current slate of workshops…

Get Outta My Head:

Writing Your Way into the Lives of Others   (Poetry)

That strange man on the corner in the orange suit – haven’t you always wondered what he was thinking? Or the spider on your bedroom ceiling – what is he trying to tell you? Now’s your chance to find out.

After a series of exercises designed to awaken students’ sense of metaphor, sensory detail, and rhythm, we help them imagine their way into the minds of fictional characters. Students write short poems based on these explorations. The result – a bound book that students receive once the workshop ends – is a literary journal of their original poetic glimpses into the minds of other people (or – who knows? – animals? furniture?).

Get Outta My Head is a chance to stretch the imagination and to challenge students’ sense of what poetry is: it doesn’t have to be impossible to understand, for one thing, and it definitely doesn’t have to rhyme.

Your Hips Don’t Lie:

Body Language and the Stories it Tells (Playwriting)

You can tell a lot about people from the way they move. If your best friend is dancing around the room, it’s a fair bet she’s giddy with happiness. And if your teacher stands with a back straighter than a measuring stick, it probably tells us something about how she likes to run her classroom.

After a fun and invigorating set of warm-up games, students will experiment with the ways in which body language can tell a story. How can the same six lines of dialogue, for instance, have totally different meanings depending on the way the speakers use their bodies? The workshop ends with a presentation of original scenes, composed and staged by students based on photographs.

Your Hips Don’t Lie challenges students to see the unspoken communication behind everyday interactions, and to take control of the way they themselves communicate – the results are funny, surprising, and moving. This is playwriting that pulls writers out of their chairs and lands them on their feet.

Inside Scoop:

The Stories You Won’t Find in the Paper (Fiction)

The newspaper may claim to tell us everything we need to know, but surely there are vivid details that the average news report misses. We might read an article about a new restaurant on Broughton Street, but who are the people working in it? We might read a report about Savannah’s mayor, but what does the mayor think about while she’s falling asleep at night?

The workshop will begin with some fun exercises on the role of detail in storytelling: what do we choose to tell, and what do we leave out? Students will then collaborate on stories inspired by articles found in the newspaper – stories that might imagine a politician’s relationship with his pet iguana or a movie star’s friendship with her mail carrier. The result is a “Secret Newspaper,” a collection of the stories behind the news, that students will receive in a bound edition after the workshop ends.

Inside Scoop stretches imaginations and dares students to see beyond the surface of other people’s lives. It gives students a chance to rethink what it means to tell stories, and to consider how we really come to know another person. You’ll never take what you read for granted again!