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Writing Out Loud

Name: Writing Out Loud
Start: 2026-01-31T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-28T15:00:00-05:00
Location: Westport Writers’ Workshop Headquarters

Four Saturday Sessions

1 – 3 PM EST

Dates: 1/31 – 2/28 (OFF 2/21)

Much of what we hear is about the need to “find our voice” as writers. But how can we find our voices if we’re always writing quietly in our head, or pounding it out on legal pads and laptops? In this class, you will discover your authentic voice by reading your work aloud and listening deeply to others. Led by Douglas Moser—professional theatre director and author of novels, stories, plays, and memoirs—this workshop offers no tricks, only insight. Like a director shaping actors’ performances, Moser listens for the story, helps sharpen critical moments, and uncovers the drama within. Through in-class exercises and shared reading with focused feedback, writers hear what resonates, refine their truth, and speak with clarity and power.

Saturdays

1:00 pm EST - 3:00 pm EST

January 31, 2026 - February 28, 2026

Westport Writers’ Workshop Headquarters

25 Sylvan Road South, Unit J
Westport, 06880 United States

Meet the Instructor

Douglas Moser

Douglas Moser is a Connecticut-based author and director. Memoir pieces published in Echo, Peculiar, and the Good Men Project and in the book Dating & Sex: The Theory of Mutual Self-Destruction, Volume 1. His short story Boxing Day was recently published in the Martian Chronicles magazine. The winner of the Connecticut Critics' Circle award for A Christmas Carol, for its premiere at the Westport Country Playhouse. He made his opera debut directing the groundbreaking folk opera, Patience & Sarah at Lincoln Center. Before COVID hit he directed Spinning at Long Wharf Theatre. Other projects throughout New York, and regionally, Fairfield, and Stamford. Moser's novel, James & Jim, a comic thriller, was workshopped at the Writers Hotel. He is also developing a YA novel, Pussy Boy, developed at Westport Writers’ Workshop and Yale Summer Writers’ Program. His short film Glacier Bay, received numerous awards on the festival circuit.

$255.00

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