Writing the Crisis with Bobuq Sayed
February 17th–March 9th, 2024
Saturdays, 2:00 PM–4:30 PM ET
Whether personal, social, or political, at some stage all of us will experience the walls of our lives crashing down around us. Often the feeling of helplessness can itself become immobilizing. In this class, students will experiment with somatic and literary strategies for overcoming the despair of crisis by learning how to channel that emotion onto the page to achieve their writing goals. We'll read writing produced from the context of different crises, create and workshop new work in response to prompts, and identify generative ways to access our emotive responses with words.
eligibility:
This workshop is open to all writers of color, and students must be able to attend all 4 sessions of the workshop. The non-refundable tuition fee is $300. This workshop will be held over Zoom. There is one scholarship spot available, and the applications are open through Sunday, January 28th.
Registration for this Workshop is now closed
Scholarships for this workshop are now closed
FACULTY:
Bobuq Sayed is an Afghan cultural worker based between Berlin and Miami. They were a Steinbeck fellow at San José State University, their writing has appeared in Guernica, The Drift, and Gulf Coast, and they are the author of A Brief History of Australian Terror, a chapbook of essays published by Common Room Editions.