About this Event
More about the session
Every space in our city can inspire new pieces of creative writing. By channeling our place-based sensory experiences, we can enliven our writing and reflect the unique aspects of our shared environments.
In this workshop, we'll warm up our senses through a series of short exercises and walk to three spaces in Little Five Points for place-based writing sessions.
Participants will learn how to use sensory and environmental details to create rich and sensual writing in any genre. This practice can enrich and deepen not only your writing, but how you move through the world.
Everyone is welcome to share and discuss what they conjure during the session, with a focus more on open-ended possibilities than critical feedback.
This session is open to creatives and writers of all skill levels.
Walk & Write: A Place-Based Writing Experience in Little Five Points will be facilitate by Scott Daughtridge DeMer.
More about Scott Daughtridge DeMer
Scott Daughtridge DeMer is a writer from Atlanta, Georgia. His work has appeared in Heavy Feather Review, Shirley Magazine, Hobart, Necessary Fiction, Midwestern Gothic, The Fanzine, matchbook, Curbside Splendor, and other places. His novella Then Then Then will be published by Kernpunkt Press in April 2025. His chapbook I Hope Something Good Happens was published by Lame House Press. A graduate from the MFA program at Arizona State University, he has received a Virginia G. Piper Center Creative Engagement Fellowship and attended residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and the Vermont Studio Center. He is an Idea Capital grant recipient and was named the Emerging Artist of the Year in the Literary Arts by the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. In 2012, he founded Lostintheletters, a literary organization presenting an award-winning reading series, free craft workshops, and the annual Letters Festival.
Event venue & nearby stays
The Marianna at Wrecking Bar Pub, 292 Moreland Ave NE, Atlanta, United States
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