with Rahla Xenopoulos
A creative pursuit of inner truths and story-telling, both memoir and fiction.
Join me in a place of adventure and free writing, where together we will abandon both inner critics and writers blocks. We will work with photographs, memories, imagination, music and smell.
This workshop is designed for experienced, published authors as well as for novices who have a hidden story to excavate and tell. It is designed for people who have a flickering feeling that they might have a book hidden within but need to discover what that book is about, for people who have been sitting on a book but haven’t managed to start and so too it is designed for people who enjoy the therapy of creative writing. But, above all it is designed for people who yearn for a place of kindness.
Bring pen, paper and an open heart. Overall, this class is designed for people who yearn for a place of kindness.
LEVEL: Beginner & Intermediate
Optional: Want an extra hour of one-on-one attention?
Rahla will provide written feedback on either part of a manuscript OR a query letter for a total of an extra hour of consultation time. Please choose this option in the drop-down menu when purchasing this workshop. This extra time will be scheduled directly with the instructor.
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WHERE:
Online via ZOOM(link will be sent the week of 1st class)
DATES:4 Wednesdays in August (7, 14, 21, 28)
TIME:
10am to 12noon EDT
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LIMITED TO 7 STUDENTS
For more info, please call 203.227.3250 or email info@WestportWriters.org
About the Instructor...
Rahla Xenopoulos is the author of A Memoir of Love and Madness (Random House) and the novels Bubbles, (Penguin) Tribe (Penguin) and The Season of Glass (Penguin). She has published short stories in the anthologies, Women Flashing, Twist and Just Keep Breathing. She has written for The Sunday Times, Glamour Magazine, and Oprah Magazine. Her latest book, The Season of Glass was a finalist for the Sunday Times Literary Award. She gives writing workshops to underprovided children and is on the boards of SA-Yes. And Short Story Day Africa, and teaches writing in South Africa, as well as in Greece, the U.K., and New York, and has worked with both experienced writers and novices from all over the world. In 2023 and, 2024, Rahla taught a mindfulness retreat with Ruby Wax and the Buddhist monk Gelong Thibtum at Avalon sanctuary in Broughton Hall, and she is an adjunct professor, presently teaching the masters non fiction program at Manhattanville College. Rahla lives in New York with her husband and teenage triplets.