Generative Workshop: Hopperaerobics!

A Ninety-Minute Excursion into the Museum of Narrative

Facilitated by Sarah Freligh

Sun, Jul 27th 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT

The paintings of Edward Hopper  —  more than 800 works altogether — often center on the small moments where stories brew instead of unfold, leaving it to the writer to shape those moments into narrative. In this ninety-minute class, we’ll look at how some writers have done just that and then jumpstart our own new poems and stories with guided prompts based on Hopper’s art.

*Workshops hosted by Small Harbor Publishing serve as both creative spaces and fundraising initiatives. Facilitators receive 60% of ticket proceeds, while the remaining 40% supports SHP’s mission to support authors and sustain operations. All workshops are available at $15 or $25, whichever works for you. A limited number of BIPOC scholarships are available — please email operations@smallharborpublishing for additional information.

Sarah Freligh is the author of seven books, including Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize, Hereafter, winner of the 2024 Bath Novella-in-Flash Contest, and the recently-released Other Emergencies. Her work has appeared many literary journals and anthologized in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018), and Best Microfiction (2019-22). Among her awards are poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation.