A 2-hour online workshop with Ariel Gore and Maureen Burdock
Date: Saturday, July 25
Time: 6–8 PM Ireland/UK time / 10 AM–12 PM Pacific Time
Price: $60
Format: Live online workshop
Beginners welcome
Workshop Description
What are you scared of expressing? What are you scared of not expressing?
In this generative online workshop, writers curious about visual expression and artists who want to write with more depth will explore the charged space between word and image.
Through paired writing and drawing prompts, Ariel Gore and Maureen Burdock will guide participants into a creative process where language and image open different doors—and where something new can emerge through their interplay.
This workshop is not about making polished work. It is about listening, noticing, experimenting, and discovering what becomes possible when words and images begin to speak to each other.
You’ll never be asked to share anything you don’t want to share.
Who This Is For
This workshop is for:
- Writers who are curious about drawing, comics, visual journaling, or image-based storytelling
- Artists who want to bring more depth, language, or narrative into their work
- Memoirists, poets, cartoonists, visual artists, and creative beginners
- Anyone interested in exploring fear, courage, anger, uncertainty, appetite, embodiment, and expression through both words and images
No drawing experience is needed.
Materials
Bring whatever you enjoy working with. Suggested materials include:
- Pens, pencils, markers, colored pencils, or any favorite drawing tools
- Drawing paper, watercolor paper, or a sketchbook
- Scrap paper for warmups
- Optional: watercolors, small palette, brushes, water, paper towel/rag
About Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore is a Lambda Award-winning author of 13 lucky books of fiction and nonfiction, including her most recent,Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer. She has been teaching and mentoring writers for over two decades. Literary Kitchen alumni have published stories, chapbooks, and books with publishers large and small.
About Maureen Burdock
Maureen Burdock is a graphic novelist, artist, and educator whose work explores memory, embodiment, transformation, and the more-than-human world. She is the author of Sleepless Planet: A Graphic Guide to Healing from Insomnia and Queen of Snails, both published by Graphic Mundi. Maureen teaches graphic medicine and graphic memoir, and coaches artists and writers in developing meaningful, sustainable creative practices.
Space is limited. Join us for an afternoon/morning of writing, drawing, reflection, and creative courage.
