Name: Holiday Sights, Sounds, and Scents: Writing from the Power of the Senses
Start: 2025-12-13T13:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-13T16:00:00-06:00
Location: 1907 Sabine St

Holiday Sights, Sounds, and Scents: Writing from the Power of the Senses

Fragrant pine, tinkling bells, silk ribbons, woodsmoke, peppermint... the holidays are full of sensory experiences; let's write about it!
About this Event

INSTRUCTOR: Andreana Binder

TIME: Saturday, December 13, 1-4 p.m. CST

PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, December 7. After Sunday, December 7: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here.

LOCATION: Writespace, 1907 Sabine Street, #125, Houston, TX 77007 (map)

LEVEL: All levels

CAP: 15

Feeling stuck this holiday season and looking for inspiration? Look no further! In this workshop, we will use our five senses along with holiday-themed items (seemingly common from home) to trigger memory and create fresh ideas for new or ongoing writing projects.

We’ll explore and experiment with how the senses are deeply linked with memory—for example, how scent can bring us back to a specific place, moment, or feeling—and how writing with the five senses helps us create concrete details that engage readers.

All you need to bring is a willingness to enjoy your writing experience and your favorite writing tools (paper and pen or laptop). Creative nonfiction but not exclusive so. Writers of all levels are welcome.

Andreana Binder is a corporate writer by trade, with a love for the arts and education. Andreana has taught courses in Composition & Rhetoric, Technical Communications, Early American Literature, as well as Creative Writing at Lone Star College and Houston Community College. Binder has a bachelor’s in Poetry from the University of Houston and a Masters in Creative Writing-Poetry from Antioch University. As a graduate student, Andreana was co-creator and editor for The Sylvan Echo Online Literary Journal. Despite having studied poetry, Andreana cannot resist writing nonfiction essays and dabbling in short fiction. Her poetry has been published in Temenos and Fawlt Magazine,as well as creative nonfiction essays in Pebble Lake Review and N/A Lit Journal.

Photo by Giulia Bertelli on Unsplash