MARNIE GOODFRIEND: Writing The Body, November 23, 2025

WRITING THE BODY

Instructor: Marnie Goodfriend

Date: Nov 23, 2025, 2-4 PM ET on Zoom 

Cost: $60

Open to writers of all genres
 

We all live in and through our bodies. How we perceive ourselves—and how the world perceives us—is inseparable from the vessel we inhabit. Bodies can be political battlegrounds, sacred spaces, sites of pleasure, or crime scenes. Writing the body allows us to tap into experiences that shape identity, memory, and voice, creating work that feels urgent and alive—whether we are writing from personal experience or building characters on the page.

This workshop will use guided exercises and short readings to generate new material from lived experiences, such as eating, politics, aging, gender, health, intimacy, trauma, and crime. Writers will come away with new entry points into their work and craft tools for deepening the essential relationship between body and story across genres.

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Marnie Goodfriend is a health writer, journalist, trauma-informed writing coach, and creative nonfiction author. She has spent over a decade covering women’s health, as well as writing about topics including wellness, gender politics, travel, relationships, as-told-to stories, and profiles of celebrities and underrepresented voices. A contributing writer for SheKnows, HealthyWomen, and Flow Space, her work has also appeared in GQ, TIME, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and other publications. Previously, she was essays editor at The Nervous Breakdown and creative nonfiction editor at Angels Flight • literary west. Fellowships and residencies include PEN America Emerging Voices, Community of Writers, New York State Summer Writers’ Program, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She writes frequently about her own health journeys and is currently working on two memoirs.  Learn more about Marnie atwww.marniegoodfriend.com.