An Invitation
Welcome
This salon is for anyone who has ever started a poem in their head while looking out a window, kept a journal, carried a story they never told, or has pages in a drawer they always meant to come back to.
Whether you are brand new to writing or have been at it for decades, you are welcome here. The Art of Telling is a free course for residents of 2601 — ten Sunday afternoons of reading together, writing together, and talking honestly about how stories work, moving deliberately through three great genres of narrative: the short story, poetry, and memoir.
There are no grades, no quizzes, and no required publication outcomes. There is only the work, the company, and the slow accumulation of skill.
What This Course Is
A salon — a small literary gathering for adult readers and writers. Over ten Sundays we move through three of the great genres of narrative. The same fundamentals (image, voice, scene, structure, revision) recur in each unit, treated through the conventions and pressures specific to that genre. By the time we close, you will have practiced narrative across all three forms.
What This Course Is Not
- It is not a workshop in the harsh sense. No one will be asked to share who does not want to.
- There are no grades, no quizzes, no required deliverables.
- Nothing said in this room leaves this room.
- Nothing is for sale here. This is a free course for residents of 2601.