During this two-hour workshop, you'll:
Explore the experiences and influences that have shaped your creative voice
Use memory, culture, language, and lived experience as storytelling tools
Participate in guided writing exercises and creative prompts
Discover ways to make your writing more personal, specific, and distinctive
Connect with other writers in an intimate online environment
Leave with new material and tools you can continue using in your writing practice
Writers at all levels are welcome. Whether you write for film, television, theatre, poetry, fiction—or you're just beginning to explore your voice—this workshop is designed to help you discover the stories that only you can tell.
About Susan-Sojourna Collier
Susan-Sojourna Collier received an Emmy® nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series for All My Children. A veteran television writer, she has written for daytime dramas including All My Children and One Life to Live.
She partnered with the late Tommy Ford (Martin, Harlem Nights) to produce two feature films distributed by Lionsgate/Grindstone: Conflict of Interest and Switching Lanes. Her screenplay Get the Show on the Road was a semifinalist in the Tribeca Screenwriting Festival.
Susan-Sojourna has taught screenwriting at the School of Visual Arts, Syracuse University's Newhouse School, and Georgia State University, and previously served as a Creative Writing and Film Professor at Abu Dhabi Women's College.
She is co-founder of the Mamie and Jimmie Collier Writing Fellowship and founder of Story Lab – The Writers' Room Project, a mentorship and storytelling initiative connecting NYC high school students experiencing housing insecurity with NYU Tisch writing student mentors.
She currently serves as an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.