SCHOOL OF SEAMS: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS & AUTHOR SERVICES
Founded during our collective period of intense isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, The School of Seams is an inclusive, welcoming environment where you can grow your writing practice in the company of others. If you don't have a writing practice yet, that is okay! The School of Seams is for everyone and designed to accommodate all levels.
The School of Seams workshops involve:
Regular writing experiments.
A diverse and exciting reading list.
Inclusive workshop sessions where writers can receive feedback from their peers.
The School of Seams seeks to make the virtual space feel as warm as a living room, and our open discussions help writers engage in fruitful dialogue around the writing process.
The School of Seams hopes you will consider becoming a student.
For more information, visit our website
CURRENT OFFERINGS:
Writing through Film (registration closed)
May 2022-June 2022
Short Prose Forms (registration closed)
May 2022 - June 2022
FUTURE OFFERINGS:
All workshops meet for six weeks; weekly meeting times TBD based on participants’ schedules. All workshops are $350.00 or sliding scale pricing, with a suggested starting price of $150.00. To enroll in a workshop, fill out the form.
Summer Writing Workshop
July-August 2022
$350.00/Sliding Scale
6 weeks/1.5 hrs a week
We will read & discuss work by Angela Carter, Denis Johnson, Lucia Berlin, Alice Munro, Camilla Grudova, Claire Louise Bennett, Scott McClanahan, Steven Dunn, and Dennis Cooper, among others. We will engage in generative writing experiments and hold space for each other’s work in a warm & supportive virtual environment. If you have a project you are working on, you will have the opportunity to get feedback from a group of peers.
Autofiction
End of June - July 2022
$350.00/Sliding Scale
6 weeks/1.5 hrs a week
We will read & discuss work by Elizabeth Hardwick, Sheila Heti, Sean Thor Conroe, Renata Adler, Marcel Proust, Chris Kraus, Dodie Bellamy, Scott McClanahan, Anelise Chen, Herve Guibert & Nathalie Leger, among others. We will engage in autofiction experiments and hold space for each other’s writing in a supportive & warm virtual environment.
Summer Manuscript Workshop
End of June - July 2022
$350.00/Sliding Scale
6 weeks/1.5 hrs a week
Do you have a project in its infancy stages that you would like to expand and focus on? Do you have pages and pages of work that you aren’t sure what to do with? Join this workshop for intensive & rigorous workshopping sessions with a group of peers.
*Also available for one-on-one individual manuscript review. Contact me for details & pricing
SICK: Narrative Remedies
July - August 2022
$350.00/Sliding Scale
6 weeks/1.5 hrs a week
How can narrative structures hold individual and collective pain? We will read work by writers interested in tackling disease from all angles. We will engage in generative writing experiments that consider narrative as a remedy/antidote/medicine for what ails us.
Fall Writing Workshop
September - October 2022
$350.00/Sliding Scale
6 weeks/1.5 hrs a week
We will engage in generative writing experiments and hold space for each other’s work in a warm & supportive virtual environment. If you have a project you are working on, you will have the opportunity to get feedback from a group of peers. The reading list is still TBD — check back for updates.
For more information, email julianellbrennan@gmail.com
“Julia's workshop was an eye-opening experience for me. The selected readings/listening material was beautiful and inspiring. The syllabus was also very diverse, a small but much-appreciated detail for me as a writer of color. The writing prompts helped open up new worlds and spaces and modes of writing for me, where before I felt uninspired and stuck. Julia is a great facilitator both for discussing the readings as well as helping guide the workshopping of our pieces, and I think she fostered a nurturing and supportive class. I have been flirting with the thought of identifying as a writer, but after this workshop, I say with pride, "I am a writer!"
I'm one of those people who has always wanted to write, and the cool thing about taking a workshop with Julia is that she makes that possible. I've felt inspired by the readings/podcasts/videos, other students, and of course Julia herself. Take a workshop with her and discover new things about yourself and what it means to write!
"Julia's Hybrid Genres Writing Workshop opened my eyes to new forms of creative expression. For an online workshop, I was surprised the atmosphere could feel comfortable, encouraging, and challenging all at the same time."