Announcing our May 2022 classes! Join Matt Ortile in a nonfiction craft class, Margaret Rhee in a multi-genre workshop, and Kristiana Kahakauwila in a fiction workshop.
We’re so excited to continue meeting with you all online in the new year. More info about our May classes are below, and you can browse our lineup of present and past classes here!
Writing into Mixedness with Kristiana Kahakauwila
8-week workshop:
Mondays, 7:00 PM–9:30 PM ET
May 2nd-June 27th
Open to all writers of color
For anyone looking to explore different facets of mixedness, this workshop offers specific craft techniques that encourage and celebrate writing into various kinds of plurality. Often fiction techniques such as plotline or third person subjective point of view emphasize the false notion that singularity is the writer’s best (or only) friend. But for a writer who wants to write into layered identities, liminal spaces, and/or community narratives, a different set of tools is needed. In the first half of this 8-week course we will examine short fiction that employs innovative forms, structures, and lesser-used points of view to inspire our own explorations and representations of mixedness.
Food, Love, and Literature: Asian American Longings with Margaret Rhee
8-week workshop:
Saturdays, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM ET
May 7th–June 25th
Open to Asian Americans writers
Food is evocative, ephemeral and expressive. Food is sensual, flavorful, and a story. Food is familial, political, and powerful. Asian American writers have long utilized food to address pressing issues in literature and in particular the politics and complexities of love. In this workshop, writers will explore food and love in literary arts with an emphasis on Asian American literature and culture, including work by Monique Truong, Li-Young Lee, Kyle Lucia Wu, and Eric Kim. Drawing from a multi-genre platter of literary and visual art sources, workshop participants will explore the intersection of food and Asian American identity and experience through close reading, discussion, and developing their own food writing.
The Essay as “Attempt”: Making Sense of the World with Personal Essays with Matthew Ortile
Craft Class:
Saturday, 2:00–5:00 PM ET
May 14th
Open to all writers of color
It was once decreed that “the personal essay boom is over.” In the years since, the personal essay has evolved: Authors are making the personal more explicitly political, connecting their individual experiences to broader cultural topics, trends, and ephemera in order to better understand the former, the latter, or both. In this one-day craft class, we’ll discuss why and how to deploy the personal essay form to elucidate the issues that trouble and fascinate us most as 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 announce new classes each month!
We hope to see you online!