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.

Flowing water shapes landscapes and memories alike, transforming the way we move through the world. In this free hour-long session, we’ll read and reflect on works by CA Conrad, Natalie Diaz, and the Institute of Queer Ecology, considering how queer, trans, and feminist artists connect waterways to ritual, ecology, and embodiment. Participants will then turn to a meaningful waterway of their own — a stream buried under Philadelphia's foundations, a lake from a long-ago memory, or a place that only exists in your mind — to generate new poetry or a prose that places memory and imagination in dialogue with the natural world.

Sara Davis is a marketing writer and environmental steward who lives in Philadelphia. Her PhD in American literature is from Temple University, and she is currently working toward a Master of Philosophy in Liberal Arts focused on environmental writing. She has published fiction and nonfiction in magazines including Phoebe Journal, Cleaver, and CRAFT, and she blogs about books and climate change at literarysara.net.