"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." John Muir "Butt in chair!" We writers are encouraged, even admonished not to move from our desks, to focus our minds like a laser beam on page or screen, tuning the rest of the world and our corporeal selves out. But movement -- whether meandering walks or dancing in our studies -- can have a dynamic effect on our writing. This workshop is designed to shake us out of constricted head space into a fuller awareness of how movement can be incorporated into our writing practice. After some simple, energizing movement and writing exercises, we'll talk about strategies for walking as a writer, for "going out" in order to "go in."

Whether poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction, Ann de Forest's work centers on the resonance of place. Her short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared in Coal Hill Review, Unbroken, Noctua Review, Cleaver Magazine, Found Poetry Review, The Journal, Hotel Amerika, Open City, and PIF, and in Hidden City Philadelphia, where she is a contributing writer. Ways of Walking, an anthology of essays she edited, will be published by New Door Books in May 2022, a project inspired by walking the entire perimeter of Philadelphia twice.