Unlock Your Voice: Techniques of Freewriting led by Sanjna N. Singh

This open-genre seminar explores the practice of freewriting as both a method and philosophy for creative writers. Freewriting—writing continuously without editing, censoring, or planning—has long been used by writers to bypass inhibition and discover surprising narrative and lyrical possibilities. Through structured exercises, close readings, craft lectures, and group discussions, we will examine how spontaneous writing can disarm the inner censor and deepen access to voice and imagination. Participants will learn a range of freewriting techniques using prompts designed to draw out sensory detail, memory, and images. Emphasis will be placed on process rather than product; nonetheless, participants will emerge with a body of experimental drafts that may serve as promising beginnings for future fiction, memoir, or poetry. The workshop is geared for writers with varying levels of experience and will include time for workshop participants to share what they’ve created.

12-15 participants max

SELECTION CRITERIA
The workshops are open to writers of all genres and levels. Writers who wish to apply may answer the following questions in 3-4 lines each (max.)
1. How does your writing currently fit into your life?
2. What are you working on at the moment (if anything)?
3. What do you hope to discover while participating in this workshop?

 About facilitator: www.sanjnasingh.com
Born in Mumbai, Sanjna N. Singh moved to the U.S. for college, graduating from Bryn Mawr with degrees in Political Science and French. She studied cinema and photography in Paris and subsequently worked for five years at HBO in New York. Her independent documentary “Out of Status” was nominated for the Amnesty DOEN award for Human Rights and aired on Channel 4, UK. Sanjna has worked on shows like Storm Chasers and Dual Survival for the Discovery Channel, Mob Wives for VH1, Hotel Impossible for the Travel Channel, Be Good Johnny Weir for Logo, and many others. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, Guernica, Bitch, Tricycle and other magazines and she was awarded numerous grants and residencies including an award from the Speculative Literature Foundation for fiction in 2021. Sanjna graduated with her MFA from the University of Iowa’s celebrated Nonfiction Writing Program in 2022, where she was also a screenwriting fellow. She currently lives in India with her little rescue terrier, KoKo.

Please note- “attendance in all sessions is mandatory.”
For queries, registration & accommodation, please email: info@deerpark.in