Love Letters to the Culture: This month, participants will explore how poets write to, for, and about their communities, heritage, and lived experiences as acts of affirmation and artistry.
This session focuses on crafting written communication that is both assertive and inclusive, with an emphasis on managing gender dynamics thoughtfully. Participants will revise career-related writing samples to build confidence using language that respects all identities while promoting clarity and professionalism.
This session focuses on the emotional impact of advocacy and digital engagement. Participants will explore how to create healthy boundaries while showing up online, and why rest and care are essential to sustained activism.
The art of book selling! Hear from McNally Jackson’s Allison Glasgow on what goes into selling books and what a Display Team means (and how they choose to curate the table of books that you see). Plus, mentees will join us to read their stories from our newly released anthology, Hope Lives in Our Words.
In this session, we’ll use prompts to uncover the nuances and complexities of our stories and characters. Take your storytelling further by seeing the world not just at face value, but by exploring what lies beneath the surface.
This Community Studio is for Peer-Pair relationships, with a focus on identity and culture. Our goal is to help Peer Mentee’s strengthen their connection using fun writing exercises and games.
In this session, we’ll be using sounds to tune into ourselves and lean into different emotions that we may be experiencing or have experienced in the past. Participants will try out creative sound and audio techniques like audio journaling, song writing, and beat-making.
In this workshop we will take a unique route in story-writing by creating various stories one writer at a time. Through a “pass it along” experience, we’ll build on previous Pinterest/imagery techniques to craft stories.
In this session, we’ll workshop turning an ordinary setting into one with a vivid, visceral sense of place. We’ll build a setting from scratch and then experiment with which details to include to illuminate character, genre, and theme without bogging down our story.
This session will focus on creating an outline for an effective college essay. Participants will work on one strong body paragraph that supports the thesis developed last month. For MFA applicants, sequence/order will be introduced for their portfolio as a strategy to strongly reinforce their chosen theme.
