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. In the second half of the class, we will learn methods for identifying and amplifying harmonies within our own work as we develop one complete short story or novel chapter. Authors whose work we’ll study include Thomas King, Julie Otsuka, Toni Morrison, Randa Jarrar, Carmen Maria Machado, Ross Gay, Louise Erdrich, and Peter Ho Davies. Class time will be devoted to a mix of reading analysis, focused lessons on specific techniques, free writing to tailored prompts, and conversation around our writing and writing goals. Each participant will also share their work in one formal workshop setting.

This 8-week course will meet on Mondays at 7:00 PM–9:30 PM ET from May 2th– June 27th. This workshop is open to all writers of color with a scholarship spot available. There’s limited space to enroll; see the class page for more information!

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