Treat yourself to a decadent, delicious half-day of writing pleasure. In this scrumptious summer pop-up class, we will write about food with a variety of fruitful, evocative prompts.

As a source for writing, food provides a rich, varied, sensual source of stories. Food is primal, visceral, and full of sensory detail—what more could a writer want?

The foods we eat and how we eat them reveals so much about our culture, families, and relationships. And food is easy to write about—it’s so immediate.

There are always stories connected to food: how you learned the secret recipe for strudel at your grandmother’s knee, the Thanksgiving your Aunt Helen insisted that the ants floating on top of the chicken soup were really black pepper, the ravioli that was a miserable failure when you were desperately trying to impress your new in-laws.

Or how about the weirdest thing you ever ate? A description of a food you had to spit out?

Writing about food often evokes deeper stories. When we write about food, we explore hunger, scarcity, satiation, greed, deprivation, sensuality, family rules, pleasure, nostalgia, loss, punishment, and rewards. Food is the vehicle that reveals these truths.

Consider, for instance, what you might write in response to the following prompts:

• Tell me about a food that’s gone extinct.
• Tell me about something you were scared to eat.
• Tell me about a time you fed someone.
• Tell me about all the kinds of hunger you have known.

It makes you think, doesn't it? Food is not just food. Food is everything. So come spend a day writing about all the places food stories can take you.

You’ll leave the workshop feeling nourished and well-fed, with a notebook full of vivid, memorable stories.