Description
You want to write. Or you are a writer, but you need some new inspiration to break out of old habits and content. Ekphrastic! Using Art as Prompts for Writing is for all levels of writing experience. In this 3-hour writers’ workshop we will learn the fundamentals of ekphrastic writing, using art to inspire us to places we might not otherwise go with our writing.
WHAT TO BRING???
Bring a journal and writing implements (colorful pens are fun – especially if you haven’t used them before), and a willingness to move outside of your comfort zone in a safe space where there are no wrong ways to write, just right ways to find easy inspiration for those moments when the urge to create strikes but the blank page feels imposing.
WHAT IS EKPHRASTIC WRITING????
Ekphrastic writing is a literary work that describes, interprets, or responds to a piece of visual art. It bridges the visual and verbal worlds by turning a static image—like a painting, sculpture, or photograph—into a dynamic piece of literature. Good ekphrasis does more than just list what is in the artwork; it adds imagination, emotion, narrative, or personal interpretation. (AI definition and description)
WHEN?????
Choose your session(s) and put your choice in the NOTE of your Registration, or text 352-804-1272 to save your spot for the date and time you choose and pay in person
Wednesday, October 14, 12 to 3 p.m. and/or 5 – 8 p.m.
COST??? Each 3-hour session is $45
ABOUT TAMMY VITALE
Tammy Vitale approaches life eclectically and creatively. She has been a go-go girl, a biker chick, a secretary, and a non-profit founder and executive director (to pick out a few highlights), and daughter, mother, wife (now widow), giving her much to write about. She has an MA in Story and Social Change and an MFA in Writing (CNF and poetry).
Most recently (to name a few), she has been published in Creative Non-Fiction (Memoir and Poetry) and Ekphrastic journals as follows:
- “Grit and Gravity: DC Women Writers” anthology, American University, 2025 (Creative Non-fiction)
- Eastern Shore Writers Association Anthology 2025 (Memoir excerpt, nominated for a PushCart Prize)
- Gut Punch Literary journal, 2026
- “The Scent of Lime: A Memoir,” October 2025, Opus Hybrid publications (associated with Politics and Prose in Washington D.C.)
- “Blood Dance,” dark ekphrastic flash fiction anthology hosted by The Ekphrastic Review under its Ekphrastic Editions imprint, one flash fiction piece. 2026
- “The Metaphor Tree,” a forthcoming poetry anthology hosted by The Ekphrastic Review under its Ekphrastic Editions imprint; two poems. 2026
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.