charlie macquerie hosts readioheads - speakers tba.

The summer ends, and everything is dry. The dirt waits for rain to turn the dead plants into night and then new life. Get dirty, get dusty, get crumbly, get muddy with your writing. Make it gross and messy and matter of fact. 

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aine & ava will be in residence at whp for one week - this open door will be their offering - a week in collaboration - an unknown - an unfolding - full of distortion & disproportion.

A meeting of creative and curious people who are interested in using radio in their creative work. Speaking at this meeting will be Kelley O'Leary & Brian Bartz. sign up with charlie!

ann altstatt, bill basquin, kelli black, blanca bercial & tana quincy arcega

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come and spend the day writing at winslow. signup soon!

a workshop offered by amy berkowitz

for anyone who likes to write and is curious about collaboration

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Speakers: Megan & Rick Prelinger

Topics: Getting your amateur license, plus?

lunch will be provided and shared.

check-in with charlie macquerie if you are interested in becoming a member!

jacqueline suskin is on a west coast tour reading from her new book of poetry the verse for now. lora mathis and the current whp writers in residence may read as well - sarah heady, emlyn guiney, shawn wen & amy bell. please rsvp with j. suskin here.

piece of cake - you get the ghost you want

guests of the open house are invited to bring a cake of their own to offer up for other guests to enjoy in the bounty. visually speaking the cake can either be in response to the title of the open house or just your favourite type of cake to make (or even from you favourite cake maker!) & this is a request - not a demand - but please please please bring a cake. have fun with it. we plan to bask in the aftermath of the cake party - it will be gorgeous.

danielle shi, j pansa, katie revilla, shaina pan & stephanie rohlfs

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The theme for the first writing day of 2025 is Radio, in honor of the new radio tower sculpture at whp. What needs to be broadcast? What signals, invisible or otherwise, need to be transmitted from person to pen to paper to reader? How is a message received at close range, and from a distance? Take these prompts to guide your writing, or just let the radio waves do their thing.

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the welcoming - anything can be basked in

alex feliciano mejía, amy rathbone, cathy kossack, kevin lo & luca mcgrath

peter whitehead & a collection of his musical collaborators will be in residence this week culminating in an offering to the public. this will also be a day for all the fellows of whp to gather, reflect and lay out futures together. a brunch concert and an extended hangout that may end in a fire at annie’s (graham’s) fire pit.

in conversation with an exhibition curated by shirin makaremi for the SF Arts Commission, Sun Park and Shirin Khalatbari will host a writing workshop.

In this writing workshop, we will recall and reimagine experiences we have had with religion and spirituality.  We will consider ways of rooting spiritual practice in the elements and in the seasons, in response to BaZi astrology.

This workshop ties back to Sun's practice and artwork they will be exhibiting in the show. forest, a BaZi astrologist, will lead an introduction to BaZi followed by individual readings.

(un)stuck - elsewhere within here

kevin cocoran, quinn keck, robin milliken, jake spertus

the band SOAR will be in residency for the week ending on this day - this event will be their offering to the community. shannon bodrogi is a fellow of whp and has invited their bandmates share time with them here at whp. the event will require an rsvp as space will be limited. stay tuned. update: cave babies will open for soar.

While there won't be prompts, we encourage writers to explore the theme of 'disruption' in their work. Perhaps you cut a scene in half, or maybe a new character knocks on the door and takes the plot for a spin, or you throw in a random image in a line of poetry, maybe you even cut everything up and see what new writing will emerge from the chaos. How you choose to engage with the theme is totally up to you, and totally optional.

conrad guevara, zibby jhans, emma spertus, iris irene

When we write, we accumulate words, sentences, and pages, but we also accumulate knowledge. I believe that whenever we’re writing, we’re teaching ourselves how to write — and whenever we share our writing with friends, we teach each other how to write.

In this workshop, we’ll consider what our writing has taught us so far, identify obstacles we’re facing in our current projects, and experiment with prompts, constraints, and interventions that might reveal new ways to surmount these obstacles. 

The first half of our day will be conversations and writing experiments, and the second half of our day will be unstructured writing time. Before we part, we’ll reconvene and optionally share our writing. 

This workshop is for anyone who is in the middle of writing or trying to write something in any genre — in fact, the more genres, the better!

Amy Berkowitz is the author of Gravitas (Éditions du Noroît / Total Joy, 2023) and Tender Points (Nightboat Books, 2019). Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, and Jewish Currents. Often mistaken for a poet, she has primarily been writing fiction since 2017; she’s currently working on a novel that she likes to call Untitled Bisexual Jumpsuits Project. She lives in San Francisco, where she cohosts the Light Jacket Reading Series with Erick Sáenz. 

Amy Berkowitz is the author of Gravitas (Éditions du Noroît / Total Joy, 2023) and Tender Points (Nightboat Books, 2019). Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, and Jewish Currents. Often mistaken for a poet, she has primarily been writing fiction since 2017; she’s currently working on a novel that she likes to call Untitled Bisexual Jumpsuits Project. She lives in San Francisco, where she cohosts the Light Jacket Reading Series with Erick Sáenz. 

Hannah Kezema is an artist who works across mediums. She is the author of the debut hybrid poetry collection, This Conversation Is Being Recorded (Game Over Books, 2023), and the chapbook, three (Tea and Tattered Pages, 2017). Her work appears in BOMB Magazine, Black Sun Lit, Grimoire, Full Stop, and other places. She is also the co-editor of Moving Parts Press’s broadside series of Latinx and Chicanx poetry in collaboration with Felicia Rice and Angel Dominguez. She lives in the Santa Cruz mountains by the sea, among the redwoods and Wildflowers.

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an anarchist artist and poet interested in ways of living and telling. A Latinx Jewish person of mixed indigenous & settler descent from the unceded lands of the Tongva people, Tatiana is a long term guest in Yelamu, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land. 

ebti, meghana bisineer, kara forest, gabi orion

a collaboration with personal space. film screening support by john davis.

The Blue Description Project (BDP) is an audio description and captioning project—produced by Crip*—Cripistemology and the Arts in collaboration with Voices in the Gallery — that engages Derek Jarman's Blue (1993) via expanded and critical accessibility. 

As Jarman wrote in Chroma (1994): “If I have overlooked something you hold precious—write it in the margin.” BDP takes up this invitation by creating a new, experimental iteration of Blue on the 30th anniversary of its release and Jarman’s death. The BDP iteration features creative captions and audio description that have been sourced from numerous contributors. It attempts to convey, express, engage, respond, evoke, articulate, replicate, translate, transmogrify, channel, and transcend what Blue is/was/could be....

rsvp via the answering machine, and please tell us where you found our dog. call (707) 562-5595.