Thursdays on the Stoop: Nerve-Wracking: Engaging the Nervous System in Horror Writing

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Thursdays on the Stoop is a series of free, virtual skill shares led for and by writers in our community. With topics ranging from generative prompts to editing strategies, these informal sessions are sure to shake up your Thursday routine. RSVP below to get the link. Use neuroscience to keep your readers in suspense! In this free, hourlong skill share with Ras Cutlass Mashramani, participants will learn how to utilize brain science and psychology to write effective horror. Through a brief lecture, reading examples, and interactive exercises, this session will provide attendees with a better understanding of the body, the human psyche, and the horror genre. Writers at all experience levels are encouraged to attend. Please familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct for online events. RSVP Ras Cutlass is a Philly-based sci-fi writer and co-founder of Metropolarity, a local sci-fi collective. Ras’s work concerns the experiences of people who are subject to institutionalization and state-sanctioned confinement. Ras centers and uplifts working class and underclass narratives, including those shedding light on communities who are most pressed into institutions and systems. In another life Ras is social worker and co-founder of Deep Space Mind 215, an afrofuturist mental health co-operative, focusing on community-driven mental health practice. Posted In: Free events

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Blue Stoop

1300 W Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19123

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