Writing and Breathing the Body Led By Shruti Swamy

Wednesdays, February 9th + February 16th, 2022 | 7:30 PM ET - 9:30 PM ET

Tuition | $100.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

In Writing and Breathing the Body with Shruti Swamy, storytellers will immerse themselves into their worlds by intense, sensory experience, and exploring the body as writers on a more fundamental level. The body—living, breathing, eating, stretching, sitting; holding a child, pulling off a sweater, petting a dog—is the most important tool we have as writers. Embodying these experiences more fully in the moment: being attentive to them, can make our writing richer and more deep no matter how attentive we are to our characters’ bodies on the page. Together, we’ll move, we’ll write, we’ll sit in meditation. We'll discuss some texts that deal with the body. We’ll keep a journal of daily pleasures from one week to the next. This class is not unrelated to one about mindfulness, but will keep a creative center. Space will be given to the experience of our bodies: vital, precious, and so alive.

About the Faculty: Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was longlisted for the Story Prize. Her debut novel, The Archer, has been longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her work has been published by the Paris Review and McSweeney’s and anthologized in the O. Henry Prize Stories. She lives in San Francisco.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.