While students of writing are often presented with a familiar list of works from a standardized academic canon that are held up as examples to learn from, the boundaries of storytelling expand far beyond these. In this generative workshop, students will review examples of global storytelling that offer alternative voices, structures, and styles that can be incorporated into their own writing practice. Assigned reading will include selections from Elaine Castillo, Amos Tutuola, Gogu Shyamala, Kuzhali Manickavel and others. Writers will have an opportunity to implement these techniques and discuss them in a small group setting. They will leave the workshop with usable craft techniques that will enable their work to be in conversation with pieces grounded in styles that have been historically underrepresented in American literature.

This class is a 1-day (3 hours long) craft class on Saturday, September 23rd from 2:00 PM–5:00 PM ET. This craft class is open to all writers of color.

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