Date: Saturday, May 30th, 2026
Times: 9:30am - 12:00 pm
Cost: $65 with all supplies included
Workshop Description
"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer."
By: Simone Weil
In this generative workshop we will be focusing on the role of sensory details in creating a deep sense of connection to everyone and everything that surrounds us (including ourselves and our own creative voice). You’ll discover a well of inspiration, reverence, awe, and belonging by paying attention to the small, ordinary details we may otherwise overlook.
We will be combining poetic expression, prompt-based-writing, and conscious noticing as a meditative practice with a slow, leisurely walk through the neighborhood (< 0.3 miles) to create a “collection of ordinary enchantments”, weave them together into poetic form, and inspire your own writing.
We will be relying on the works of Ross Gay, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, and others for inspiration and to ground ourselves in attention, experience joy and awe brought on by engaging with “ordinary enchantments,” and explore kinship with each other and our surroundings through poetic expression.
You will leave the workshop with several completed short pieces + inspiration and tools to continue writing and further develop the work you started during our time together.
Because we will be taking a walk through a nearby neighborhood, you’re encouraged to bring water and snacks to the workshop.
Come as you are:
We aim to create a supportive, low-pressure creative environment designed to accommodate everyone from absolute beginners, those looking to go back to writing, to experienced writers looking for more inspiration and regular writing practice. All levels are welcome. All materials are provided, but you’re welcome to bring your favorite paper, journal, and writing tools.
Artist Bio
Masha Shukovich (she/they) is a writer, storyteller, folklorist, teaching artist, practical animist, neurodivergent person, and a brown immigrant from a country that no longer exists. Masha's ancestral and indigenous roots are in the Balkans; the Mediterranean; and West, South, Central, and Northeast Asia. Masha is the winner of many writing awards, including the Prism Review Fiction Contest, the Cutthroat Magazine’s Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize, Page Turner Mentorship Award, and the Courage to Write Writers of Note Award, among others. Masha has a PhD in Communication from Texas A&M University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, and is a graduate of the Tin House Winter Workshop, Iowa Writers’ Workshop Summer Program, Anaphora Arts Winter Residency and Novel Bootcamp, and the Lighthouse Writers Book Project. She is at work on a novel and a collection of short stories. Masha’s writing is inspired by the lived experiences of humanimals, shapeshifters, and apparent outsiders who seem to belong nowhere and everywhere.
Masha lives and writes on the land colonially known as the Salt Lake Valley.
Website: http://www.mashashukovich.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mashawrites/