1 Session: Wednesday, August 27
7:00-9:00pm ET
Michael Zapata

This master class is taught by award winning novelist and editor Michael Zapata, author of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, among others, and founding editor of MAKE Literary Magazine. He is the recent recipient of the Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award. In Axios, Michael Zapata’s work was called an important “part of the growing Latino-futurism movement.”

The traditional workshop has always felt particularly overbearing and even colonial to me in its corrective, hierarchal, and prescriptive formats. Instead, I’ve always believed that a workshop is an artistic space for writers who are in the process of making.

This is a class for both instructors and writers who are looking for a new way to engage the writing workshop. We'll review and practice the Socratic Method and Feminist process, both of which center the writer and allow for equity, inquiry, and discovery. The Socratic Method in workshop uses lines of inquiry to address the complexities, mysteries, and realities of our work rather than eliciting prescriptions or assertions. The Feminist Process first emerged as a set of practices in organizing and women-only groups in the 1970s where people began to identify the roles personal power dynamics played in dialogue and decision making. Over time, others unified these practices into their work in antiracism and decolonization movements. This course will help you move towards a more rewarding and equitable writing workshop to bring out into the world.

Workshop Highlights:

• A deeper understanding of new ways to approach the writing workshop.

• Learn how to both participate and run writing workshops that treat the workshop itself as an artistic space.

• This master class includes a Q&A

This class has 1 full and 1 partial scholarship available. To apply, please fill out this form by Monday, August 18.