Thursdays on the Stoop is a series of free, virtual writing workshops led for and by our community members. With topics ranging from generative prompts to editing strategies, these informal workshops are sure to shake up your Thursday routine. RSVP below to get the link.

Fiction writers are often tempted to account for every minute of a story in chronological order. In this free hour-long session, participants will be encouraged to take a playful approach to writing time, skipping forward to the next part of the story that matters. We'll study excerpts from Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh and the short story “Silence” by Lucia Berlin, then draft new passages of our own.

Sofia M. Rabaté is a writer and educator based in Philadelphia. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and later earned her MFA from Temple University, where she was the editor of TINGE Magazine.