Stories in Place, Stories of Me: A Scavenger Hunt and Writing Workshop on Saturday, September 27th from 4-6 pm
Our personal narratives are a patchwork map of memories, inherited experience, and our sensing bodies in the everyday. In this workshop, collect your sensory observations and stitch them with memory to tell stories that honor the neighborhoods we move through. We’ll spend some time wandering West Main region (weather permitting) and scavenging for stories. Then, we’ll write and map-make to help turn our found scraps into story treasure

Workshop is limited to 12 participants, so be sure to register now! 

$40 gets you 2 hours minutes of instruction in the Workshop Gallery at Ball & Socket Arts from 4 to 6 pm. If cost is a barrier to participation, please reach out to our team by emailing info@ballandsocket.org to discuss accommodations.

About the Instructor:
Roohi Choudhry is a writer, teaching artist, and researcher who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Pakistan and raised in southern Africa, she holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and residencies at Hedgebrook and Djerassi. She worked as a researcher in criminal justice reform and public health, wrote for the United Nations, and facilitates creative writing workshops for interfaith groups, schools, libraries, and community organizations. Her stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Callaloo, Longreads, and the Kenyon Review. Her debut novel, Outside Women (University Press of Kentucky, March 2025), was named one of the "most anticipated feminist books of 2025" by Ms. Magazine and described as “riveting… an incisive story of how change happens” by Publishers’ Weekly. Find out more at roohichoudhry.com.

Outside Women (University Press of Kentucky) is set in South Africa, Pakistan, and New York City over the span of a century. The book intertwines the narratives of two migrant South Asian women each faced with the choice to risk her own life to pursue justice for a stranger. Ms. Magazine recently included the book on their list of Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 and Publishers’ Weekly described it as “riveting… an incisive story of how change happens.” Pub date — March 25, 2025.