
Interior & Exterior Landscapes with Laura Marris (Youth Writing Workshop)
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes,” filmmaker Agnès Varda wrote. “If we opened me up, we’d find beaches… Memory is like sand in my hand. I keep some and some is going.”
In this youth writing workshop, we’ll write toward the places closest to us, thinking about how local landscapes and ecologies can carry memory, emotion, and creative possibility. We’ll also think about psychogeography, or the way our thoughts and feelings are shaped by the places we experience, and how that can strengthen our writing about the world around us.
This workshop is open to poetry or prose, and no previous experience is necessary!
If you attend in person, JBWC doors open at 3:30pm. Feel free to drop in early to relax with a book, work on your writing, try a prompt, or catch up with your creative peers!
- The JBWC Creative Writing Programs for Youth are FREE and aimed at young students aged 12–18.
- This youth writing workshop is in person only
- ACCESSIBILITY NOTE: If you have any questions/issues accessing any of these opportunities, please let us know and we will work with you to make sure you can participate.
Featured Artist
-
Laura MarrisWriter & Translator
Laura Marris is a writer and translator. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, The Yale Review, The Paris Review Daily, The Common, The TLS, The New York Times, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell, a Katharine Bakeless Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and a grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation. Her first solo-authored book, The Age of Loneliness, was published in August 2024 by Graywolf Press.
(Photo credit: Pat Cray)

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.