Fiction & Memoir Generative Surge

For writers at all levels who wish to advance work in progress or launch something new. This workshop is structured around a timing and intention-setting method that helps writers work in highly productive bursts with enhanced focus. Prompts will be provided to those who find them useful. During a break, we'll also engage a deep relaxation method that segues, for each writer, into a silent interview with a chosen character (fictional or real), deepening access to our own subconscious material.

About the Facilitator

Dylan Landis is the author of List of All Possible Desires and Normal People Don’t Live Like This, both novels in stories, and Rainey Royal, a novel and New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading, and her essays in Harper's Magazine and Modern Love. She lives in Los Angeles.

About Beyond Baroque

is one of the United States' leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public's knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968 as an experimental literary magazine, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings and workshops. The building also houses a bookstore with a large collection of new poetry books for sale.

Ticket purchase is required. Tickets will be available at the Beyond Baroque bookstore on the day of the workshop, but we recommend registering in advance through Eventbrite. Masks are encouraged while inside our center. Please arrive early.

Workshop attendees are expected to behave in a respectful and considerate manner while in our space. Beyond Baroque reserves the right to remove individuals from our workshops, virtual or otherwise, if they are not respecting the space, staff, fellow attendees, or performers.