In collaboration with Kaya Press, I am excited to be able to offer workshops specifically designed for writers of the Asian Pacific diaspora who are working on family or community history projects and coming up against historical omissions and intergenerational silences. Within our diverse histories and lineages, there are shared silences around war, colonialism, revolution, migration, racism, and gender violence that make such a workshop space urgent and necessary. These workshops will introduce you to the creative tools of memory work and provide a safe space for digging into a past that has gone underground.
Registration is now open for Fall 2024!
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September 6, 13, 20, 27 & October 4, 2024
3:00-6:00 PM EST
This five-week remote workshop is for writers, story-tellers, and truth-tellers who are trying to trace elusive family histories within and across the Pacific. During our time together, we will experiment with creative tools and practices for re-searching and writing into intergenerational silences and historical erasures that are all too familiar within Asian Pacific diasporic families and communities. We will explore the shapes and forms these silences take—in the family, on the body, between nations—and how to re-fashion and re-claim them as next gen writers.
(Photo by Chris Gaul)