6 Sessions: Thursdays, February 5 - March 12
6:00-8:00pm ET
Javier Sinay

This writing workshop is taught by Javier Sinay, an author and a journalist. His books include The Murders of Moises Ville, the true story of his journey reporting a long forgotten true story of violence and displacement, but also resilience and cooperation. In 2015 he won the award of Fundación Gabo (the most important for journalism written in Spanish language) for his story “Fast. Furious. Dead” published in Rolling Stone. He has lead writing workshops, in person and virtually, at The Work Room, the Yale Journalism Initiative, UMass (College of Social & Behavioral Sciences--Journalism), Brandeis University, The Center For Fiction (NY), Lighthouse (Denver), the National Library of Argentina, Casa América (Madrid, Spain) and more. He lives in Buenos Aires.

In this workshop we will read and write to learn about those who came before us -- and thus we will better understand our identity: Who were they? Who are we? Why did Jorge Luis Borges never publish the story that dishonors his grandfather? Why does Prince Harry say so little about his father in his memoir? Why did our grandparents do what they did? From how many generations do we carry genes? These and other questions about genealogy, family, molecular biology and inheritance can help us find answers through words.

This workshop is for any writer interested in identity and will teach you how to write a perhaps epic and surely revealing family memoir. We will read pieces by Jorge Luis Borges, Margo Glantz, Leonard Cohen, Gabriela Wiener and Jordan Salama, among others. And my book 'The Murders of Moisés Ville’.

Workshop Highlights:

• Instructor and peer feedback

• Generative writing exercises

To apply for a scholarship, please fill out this form by Wednesday, January 28.