Writing students at Barat House workshop

Writers' Hub Workshops

Manhattanville Writers’ Hub Fall Workshops

The Writers’ Hub at Manhattanville University is a literary home for the local Westchester County and Hudson Valley community.

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Writers' Hub Fall 2025 Workshops

Each semester, the Manhattanville University MFA Program develops a series of creative writing workshops that are open to local community members and program alumni as well as to current MFA students. These events are designed to dig deeply into a specific element of the craft of writing and to help participants hone their skills. All events take place at Barat House, home of the Dowd-O'Gorman Creative Writing Center, tucked away on Manhattanville’s vibrant campus. Please see this semester’s offerings below. We look forward to hosting you at Barat House. Come work on your writing craft with us!

Mary Newell

Embodied Awareness for Resonant Writing

Can we write with participation of the whole of our embodied selves? In this workshop, we will explore the use of different vowels to shape the emotional tone of what we write and incite corresponding responses in readers. Discover how the use of certain vowels can evoke and broaden our expressive range, as vowel sounds underlie expression of feelings. With in-class exercises, including attentive relaxation and following the breath through the body, we’ll become aware of how words resonate; this will enable our writing process to reach new depths of clarity and communication. By allowing our whole body to become carriers of the messages in our hearts and minds, we can write more freely, more precisely, more evocatively, and help ourselves eliminate barriers, even writer’s block. This approach can serve writers of all genres.

Saturday, September 20, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Barat House, Manhattanville University

Registration Fee: $50. FREE for current Manhattanville MFA students