A Performative Writing Novel
Someplace, Somewhere is a performative writing novel in three parts, currently in its final stages of development.
It began with a notebook—a daughter’s inheritance, a mother’s final gift. Inside it, fragments of memory: the story of a theatre company in a prison, the bond between two children in a forested refugee camp, and a love that never quite knew how to say goodbye.
But this novel isn’t only written. It is being lived.
The third part of the book is unfolding now, through the voices and bodies of people who take part in a series of performative writing workshops across Europe and online. These workshops are not just a tool—they are the narrative device. Each participant contributes reflections, memories, fragments, and gestures that will echo within the final arc of the book.
This is writing as a shared ritual. A dialogue between fiction and experience, solitude and collective resonance.
Themes
- Isolation and connection
- Identity and memory
- Care, listening, and the art of mirroring
- Forgiveness as an embodied act
- Thresholds, and transformation
An invitation
This is not a solitary act of authorship. Someplace, Somewhere is an invitation.
Through performative writing—rooted in time-bound intuitive composition, guided embodiment, and shared reading—we create a living third part of the story. The novel becomes a space where your voice, your memories, your images may find form and be remembered.
Workshop Methodology
- Guided writing sessions (timed, intuitive, judgment-free)
- Embodiment and breathing exercises
- Story-based rituals (onsen, water ceremony, shared reading)
- Collection of participant fragments (with consent)
How to take part
Workshops are open to all who feel called to explore writing as a gesture of connection. No previous writing experience is needed—only the willingness to listen, to breathe, to remember.
Upcoming sessions will be announced [here/link to calendar or mailing list].
Interested in hosting a workshop, contributing to the novel, or publishing the work?
Write to: info@scritturaperformativa.com