Announcing our April 2022 classes! Join K-Ming Chang’s prose craft class, Jennifer S. Cheng in an amazing 1-day craft class, and Jasmine Sawers’s fiction 8-week workshop.
We’re so excited to continue meeting with you all online in the new year. More info about our April classes are below, and you can browse our lineup of present and past classes here!
Fables and the Fantastic: Reimagining Realism with K-Ming Chang
Craft Class:
Saturday, 3:00–6:00 PM ET
April 16th
Open to all writers of color
This class is a generative seminar that takes inspiration from mythological and speculative elements in storytelling to reimagine what's possible in prose narratives. "Reality" is often rigidly defined by people in power, but this generative class will prompt students to imagine outside of typical categories of "realism" in order to access memory, mythology, history, transformation, and non-Western storytelling structures to write imaginatively and redefine reality in our stories.
Bewilderment: a Poetics and an Ethics with Jennifer S. Cheng
Multi-genre Craft Class
Saturday, 3:00 PM–6:00 PM ET
April 23rd
Open to all Asian Americans
What does it mean, especially as Asian Americans, to invite Fanny Howe’s concept of bewilderment into our poetics/aesthetics, our writing practice, and even how we approach the day? In this class, we will explore critical and creative texts while paying attention to how uncertainty, the unknowable, and the unsayable might relate to us particularly as writers from marginalized experiences—and the ways we connect with our artistic processes, our aesthetics, our bodies, our histories, our ancestors.
Reconceptualizing Fairy Tales, Folklore, & Myth as BIPOC with Jasmine Sawers
Fiction Workshop:
Tuesdays, 7:00 PM–9:30 PM ET
April 12th-April 31st
All writers of color
In this generative flash workshop, we will explore how writers of color have rewritten the Western fairy tale to heal cultural wounds, how they’ve introduced English-language readers to the heroes and tropes of other countries’, cultures’, and languages’ folklore, how they’ve forged their own new myths, and how we can do the same.
Classes are open to all writers of color. 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 introduce more classes for next year soon!
We hope to see you online!