Welcome to Corporeal Writing

Corporeal Writing focuses on embodied creative practice, writing collaboratively without a dependence on old-school models of critique, creating radically different feedback and revision processes that are generative rather than editorially closed systems. We also seek to cultivate a willingness to explore hybrid forms and non-traditional forms of writing as the vital shape-shifting energy needed to discover our future selves. In other words, Corporeal Writing is a plurality of voice, vision, form.

In collaboration with the Corporeal Writing Squad, author and arts activist Lidia Yuknavitch has crafted her body-centered art-making philosophy into a groundbreaking workshop practice. With both Face2Face and online workshops, also called creative labs, Corporeal Writing has quickly established itself as a writing revolution. This lateral revolution is open to artists of all types at all levels.

Corporeal as in writing by and through the body. Corporeal because your body has a point of view in life. 

Corporeality = all of our knowing comes from our bodies. And stories come out of you differently if you write from there. Readers experience them differently if you write from there. The world might be different, if we write from there.

Open to writers in any form, artists of any kind, and health, body, mind and spirit care professionals. Or anyone who wants to explore the realm of the creative.

"I understand experience as art. In other words, I see reality, identity, and experience by and through stories, films, plays, poems, paintings, music and dance. As a writer, I try to name precisely what's what from my biased point of view in a way that might engage a reader. Inside that relationship--between a writer and a reader--a fiercely passionate world may yet rise. That is, if you risk letting art into your life. Writing is a metaphor for living a life. I teach writing, literature, and art as if they were urgent."
 – Lidia Yuknvavitch

What's on the other side:

• Community Sharing Space: With the ability to connect with others members of the community, share work & stories, cross-pollinate, and help create smaller affinity groups. Members will also be the first to know about special events and new offerings, and will receive occasional portals, videos, and other sharings from our squad members.
• Course Platform: This network will also act as the portal for all of our online course content, special introvert-version courses with Lidia Yuknavitch, and other special courses such as Mushroom School.
• And stay tuned for lots of new things coming soon!