Teaching

         Step beyond conventional storytelling into the liminal spaces where text and body converge. In this workshop, we explore the sex scene as method, material, site of transformation, and as a tool for radical experimentation in writing. Using literature, film, and television as our laboratory, we’ll explore how sex scenes can illuminate character, destabilize narrative, and rewrite the rules. This workshop invites you to enter liminal spaces as catalysts for narrative transformation, to disrupt conventional pleasure and gaze tropes, and to invent a new language of desire. 

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Through reading, viewing, discussion, and hands-on writing, we will confront inherited tropes and explore the idea of the sex scene as a site of invention and hybridity. Whether your goal is to write scenes of desire and sex, challenge literary conventions of writing the body, or to expand your narrative toolkit, this workshop will offer a safe space to experiment and break rules. You will leave with new forms and new ways of thinking about desire, the body, and storytelling itself. 

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Bio: Amital Stern writes film, theater, essays and other texts. Her work has appeared in Guernica and Best American Experimental Writing. Films she co-wrote, such as Dead Language, have screened at the Tribeca and Jerusalem film festivals and more. Her plays have been performed at the Theatronetto Festival, Jaffa Theater, and other venues. She has been teaching experimental writing workshops for the past eight years.