Description
Writing our lives is tough. There is so much information and experience to document. How do we do that in a finite number of pages? And, how do we serve such an endeavor with accuracy? We have to contend with our memory, the totality of experience, not to mention the limits of perception and language. This seminar works to address some of these ethical and process-oriented questions with candor, pathos, and hopefully inspiration.
Date: November 23
Time: 4-6 pm Eastern, Virtual
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Join us for a generative group writing session! Come away with new material inspired by writing prompts led by Black Lawrence Press author Miah Jeffra. Participants will be given a series of prompts, each followed by time to write silently while in community with other writers. All participants will receive:
- a PDF of additional prompts for future writing
- a surprise chapbook, mailed to your address
Miah Jeffra is author of four books—most recently The Violence Almanac (finalist for several awards, including the Grace Paley and Robert C Jones Book Prizes) and the novel American Gospel, finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award—and is co-editor of the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart. Work can be seen in StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, The North American Review, Barrelhouse, DIAGRAM, storySouth and many others. Miah is co-founder of Whiting Award-winning queer and trans literary collaborative, Foglifter Press, and teaches writing, decolonial studies and cultural theory at Santa Clara University.
