Program Details
WHEN: Feb 5, 2026
PLAY/INSPIRE STUDIO WORKSHOP SERIES
THURSDAYS FEBRUARY 5 - MARCH 5 | 5:30-7:30PM | AGES 18+ | FREE
Five week series of individual writers workshops for adults of all skill and experience levels. For anyone who has a story to tell, but needs to be pushed to do it. Sign up for one or all five.
WRITER'S DETENTION WORKSHOP SERIES
INCLUDED DATES: 2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, & 3/5 (sign up for any or all)
LOCATION:
2/5 & 3/5 | PLAY STUDIO
2/12, 2/19, & 2/26 | INSPIRE STUDIO
INSTRUCTOR: Bridget Foley
Detention for Writers is a two hour weekly commitment to whatever project you’ve been promising yourself you’ll get to "someday."
Here’s how it works: You assign yourself detention by signing up for one of the detention windows we have available. You can sign up for one or all five.
On the day of the detention you'll get a reminder that you have detention.
When you show up, you will turn your phone into the detention monitor and sit with your laptop or notebook in a quiet room for 90 minutes—no screaming espresso machines, no strangers gossiping at the next table, no phone calls, no going online... just a room filled with the sound of other writers writing.
You will write for or you will face the blank page.
Prompts will be available for people who need a jump start. Whether you write one word or a thousand words, at the end of the session you will spend the timing working and getting closer to your goal!
When the 90 minutes is up, detention is over.
You can chose to hang out for another 30 minutes and get to know the other people who also put themselves into detention… kind of like The Breakfast Club. There will be a place for grabbing beverages and getting to know your fellow detainees/ writers.
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN:
To give themselves a dedicated space to work on their "someday" project. Perfect for writing outlines, novels, screenplays, business plans, course work, etc.
TAKEAWAYS:
Finally getting started on that project you've been putting off.
MATERIALS TO BRING:
Whatever you use to write (laptop, notebook, pens)
INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Bridget Foley is the author of two novels, HUGO & ROSE (St Martins Press) and JUST GET HOME (MIRA) . Her novels and screenplays have been optioned by the producers of SPIDERMAN, THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS and UNCUT GEMS. As an actor Bridget trained at NYU’s Tisch School, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television and the famed Groundlings School in Los Angeles. Residing in Boise, Bridget helped to found a program where the principles of improv are used to improve social skills and quality of life for adolescents. She performs and teaches regularly at Recycled Minds comedy.
HER INSPIRATION FOR THIS WORKSHOP:
The inspiration for Writer’s Detention was my friend’s teenage son.
The high school had been calling him every day about his son being late to his first class. The kid is a straight-A student, but this had been going on for months.
So finally, my friend asks his son what the deal was… and this kid, dare I say this genius, tell his dad “When I’m late to class I don’t really miss anything important and the punishment for being late is that I have to do detention.”
So, his dad asks, “Don’t you hate detention?”
And his son says, “Why would I? I get my best work done there.”
Now I’m a professional novelist, but when I heard that story, I was jealous that I don’t have a class I can be late to so that I can be put in detention… and get my best work done.
Most creative people struggle to carve out time to actually make the thing that exists in their head...and when they do, a lot of us get distracted and wind up spending time on our phones. Or answering emails. Or editing older work.
But what if there was a weekly detention you could go to? Where would someone monitor you and make sure you’re facing the blank page? Not a coffee shop with screeching machines and chatty customers. And not a writer’s group with a bunch of people asking for feedback. But an actual, non-internet connected, check your phone at the door, sit down and "do your time" detention?