In this session, learn how to use an A to Z structure to write a creative nonfiction essay. Exploring this structure can help you write about difficult topics or simply be a fun way to look at a theme from different angles.
In this session, we will look back on using pictures to craft stories. We will collaborate as a collective on forming and structuring a single story while crafting our own unique narratives.
Join us for an evening of creativity, connection, and community at our Open Mic—featuring storytelling, poetry, song, writing prompts, and cafecito with the Latine/Hispanic Affinity Group.
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.
