The Writer's Studio: Writing Into Grief

On January 22, please join us for Writing Into Grief, a Writer's Studio workshop hosted by Kevin DiPirro.

Grief provides a rich space for the experience of loss that comes with any major change. By writing into grief, writers may very well be able to explore more deeply their characters’ experiences, motivations, backstories, interactions, and plotlines—or their own authorial expressions of such. In this workshop we will follow some grief writing exercises based on Angela Hennessy and Marvin K. White’s work for the De Young Museum’s Writing as Ritual workshop for the Kehinde Wiley exhibit this past year. Writers of all genres and kinds are encouraged. Grief involves any loss—not just those involving mortality.

Kevin DiPirro is a playwright, theater-maker, and deviser who teaches in PWR as Advanced Lecturer. His plays have appeared in New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Stanford. A Hewlett Fellow for American Theatre Magazine, Kevin’s most recent work, Underworld, was performed on Stanford’s campus in the Nitery and other parts of the Old Union Complex.