Master Class: The Great Unblocking with Sarah Manguso
Master Class: The Great Unblocking with Sarah Manguso
1 Session: Thursday, October 8
6:00-8:00pm ET
Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso is the author of many books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including the novels Liars and Very Cold People and the nonfiction books Ongoingness and The Two Kinds of Decay. Her honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rome Prize. Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.
What if I told you that you already know the solution to your biggest creative block? During this master class, I'll present a six-part creative unblocking exercise that I’ve taught at writing programs and arts organizations across the country. This exercise can be used or reused at ANY phase of ANY type of creative work… and you might find that it's the only writing exercise you'll ever need.
Highlights:
Reconceive the idea of writer's block
Relearn how to solve it
Learn from the experience of others with similar challenges
This class has 2 partial scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Wednesday, September 30.
Sarah Manguso is the author of eleven books, most recently Questions Without Answers (Hogarth, 2025) with illustrator Liana Finck, which ponders questions only kids would ask. Her most recent novel is Liars (Hogarth, 2024) which the New York Times called, “eviscerating.” Her other books include the novelVery Cold People (Hogarth, 2022), 300 Arguments (Graywolf, 2017), an NPR Best Book of 2017; Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (Graywolf, 2015), a New York Times Editor’s Choice; The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend (FSG, 2012), a Salon Top Ten Book of 2012; The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir (FSG, 2009), a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year; Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (McSweeney’s 2007), a Los Angeles Times Critics' Choice; and the poetry collections Siste Viator (Four Way, 2006), and The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James, 2002), a Village Voice book of the year. A master of the unconventional in multiple genres, Kirkus Review praised Manguso as "a Proustian minimalist on the order of Lydia Davis.”
