Announcing our October 2022 classes! Join Shamala Gallagher in a multi-genre workshop on crisis prose, and Ina Cariño in a multi-genre craft class on rewriting origins!
We’re excited to continue meeting with you throughout the fall months. More info about our October classes are below, and you can browse the lineup of present and past classes here!
8–Week Workshop:
Tuesdays, 6:00 PM–8:30 PM ET
October 4th–November 22nd
Open to all writers of color
This class is a space for us to write through personal crisis, past or present. We sometimes come to a time in our lives where we find that our self, as presently constructed, is not sufficient to go on. Then we stand, not sure who we are, at the threshold of the unbearable. Perhaps we are here because of illness, or gender transition, or new parenthood, or a beloved's death. Perhaps it's because of personal failure, or failure of a belief system, or defiance of family-- or remembering or encountering a trauma, or aging, or perhaps we aren't sure there's a reason at all. The prose we need to write these times might elude us. It might ask us, "What is prose?" It might become the most exciting, heartbreaking, ecstatic prose we've ever written.
On Alchemy: How Poems Rewrite Our Origins
Craft Class:
Sunday, 2:00–5:00 PM ET
October 16th
Open to all writers of color
Through prompts and after discussing origin stories both personal and cultural—folk stories, myths, superstitions, and more—participants will generate new materials, then utilize various visual forms on the page—pour their poems into different containers—in an attempt to scrutinize their bodies' beginnings anew through a decolonized eye. In this reverse alchemy of sorts, these works will be shared in the workshop if participants so choose. They will also be given several prompts to take home. What has walked with you, and what have you left behind? What parts of you have changed in this crossing?
All classes will take place on Zoom and the class times listed are in Eastern Time. There are scholarships available for each class and deadlines are listed on the individual course pages.
View our full selection of online classes on our Online Classes Page. We will announce new classes for November and other fall classes soon!
See you online!