Name: Taking a Second Look at First Drafts
Start: 2025-01-07T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-07T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 33 Hawley St, Northampton, MA 01060-1302, United States

TAKING A SECOND LOOK AT FIRST DRAFTS WITH CHAYA GROSSBERG
FOUR TUESDAYS, JANUARY 7-28, 5:30-7PM**
COST: $100-$200 SLIDING SCALE*
Do you have a writing project you are working on or have abandoned and need inspiration and community to look at it with fresh eyes? This writing and revision workshop is for writers of any experience level who want to revisit a piece of writing and explore it from different angles, perhaps being surprised by what you find! In this class, you’ll have the chance to play with and explore ideas, images and characters in a low-pressure process to become more intimate with your written work and what stories it wants to tell. Poetry/fiction and non-fiction content is all welcome. This workshop is screen free (unless you need an accommodation), so please bring a hand written or printed copy of one or two pages of your draft you would like to start exploring to the first session.
To register, email [email protected] or call the Center at 413-584-7327. Please include your name, address, and telephone contact. Course fees are payable in advance by check to “NCFA” and can be mailed to the Northampton Center for the Arts, PO Box 366, Northampton MA 01061, or by Paypal here.
*Payments on the upper end of the scale help support our commitment to sliding scale rates, as well as our low teacher/participant ratio. Financial aid is available through our Community Fund.
**If classes are cancelled due to winter weather, they will be made up on the first two Tuesdays in February at the same time. We recommend holding these dates open just in case!
Chaya Grossberg has been writing poetry, stories, and non-fiction since she was a child and has been actively blogging for over a decade. She has facilitated creative writing groups and workshops for over 20 years for teenagers and adults, for writers, aspiring writers at various levels, and for trauma survivors and those seeking healing. She has published poetry books, a memoir, and other writings and led writing groups, classes and open mics, from coast to coast, including NYC, SF and here in Western Mass. Chaya has been writing daily for 25 years.