Performance night! Reading on the bookstore stage from 7-9 on June 10th

Inspired by stand-up comedy, The Moth StorySlams, and Chuck Palahniuk’s body-dropping readings of “Guts”, this workshop invites writers to explore the ways “giving a reading” can move beyond the tradition of simply reading our words out loud.

Equal parts writing, revision, and performance practice, we will spend three sessions drawing inspiration from essays on performance and form as well as creative work across genres, to generate and revise new writing, and three sessions translating that writing into a 5-7 minute live reading to perform on stage at Mother Foucault (no memorization required!).

Designed for writers at all levels and working in any genre, this is a space to play with words and give them your voice.

6 Weeks, 10-12 max participants (OPEM)

Time: 6pm-8pm on
Wednesdays, May 6th – June 10th

Haley Hamilton is a writer, performer, and longtime bartender. Her writing and reporting have been published in Slate, EATER, Bustle, and elsewhere, and been funded by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Solutions Journalism Network grants. Haley also tells stories live on stage and has performed with Stories From the Stage, The Moth, and LitCrawl Boston. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from PNCA and hosts the #NewShit reading series at Mother Foucault.