Writers Night Out, May 21, 2025 Tapping into Your Senses
Powerful Writing is Sensual.
Using sensory detail – sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell – makes your writing come alive and helps the readers form images in their mind’s eye.
To learn more about this important literary tool, please attend
Writers Night Out
May 21, 2025
at 7 PM
Osterville Village Library
43 Wianno Road
Osterville, MA. 02655
Members are invited and may bring one literary-minded friend
Five Alive: Tapping Your Senses
This presentation will help you tap into each of your five senses to generate new work. We will look at excerpts from authors who effectively use sensory detail, including Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Eduardo Machado. A prompt or two will help you get started. The practice of using your senses will pay off when you want to fully imagine a scene in longer, more polished pieces.
Clara Silverstein is the Boston-based author of Above the Fall Line, a collection of poems, a memoir, a historical novel, and four non-fiction books. Her work has appeared in publications including The Boston Globe, Blackbird, Chautauqua, and at Boston City Hall. She has directed the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, taught at Grub Street, and led programs at a history museum. www.clarasilverstein.com
To attend, please email writers@capecodwriterscenter.org with May 21 in the subject line.