WRITING WORKSHOP: Multi-Verses: Writing Our Immigrant Origin Stories

New York City NY

01 April, 2021

Description

This is a creative writing workshop exploring our narrative inheritances as first and second generation immigrants. Americans learn that Ellis Island represents the classic story of early twentieth-century immigration. In the later part of that century, however, immigration is characterized by the effects of, and resistance to, colonialism, imperialism, and neoliberalism painting a different kind of American narrative, and a more complicated story to tell. In this way, an immigrant story can defy the classic "universal" narrative and becomes a way to express shifting identities that transcend nationality, a sense of "becoming" while perhaps never fully arriving: a multidimensional, multiversal origin story. In this writing workshop, we will read immigrant writers and glean their techniques for blending the present with the historical, the personal, and political, the weighty with the whimsical. We’ll use creative prompts to spark images, setting, and portraits of people we'll treat as characters imbued with complexity. The goal is to create a supportive and environment for all voices and experiences so that we may share our work, not only for constructive feedback but to learn also how to read as writers. We’ll focus on how to develop a voice unique to your own layered origin story traversing time and place, and explore publishing opportunities. This workshop is designed for writers of all levels interested who identify as immigrants, including first- and second- generations. Beginning April 1, 2021 for 6 weeks. Ending on May 6, 2021. Thursdays, 6:00 - 7:30 PM. MORE INFO HERE: