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SUMMARY:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Literary Seminar: The Color Purple by Alice Walker
DESCRIPTION:THIS SESSION IS ONLINE\nThe Color Purple by Alice Walker \nWow do you owe it to yourself to (re)read The Color Purple. The linguistic richness\, the twist on the epistolary structure\, the breadth of warm\, complex characters—all of this makes The Color Purple a must-(re)read. Dive in for Walker’s amazing use of dialect alone! \nWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, Walker’s 1982 novel has been one of the nation’s most “challenged” books\, often banned for violence and (excellent\, progressive) sexual content. While all the awards are exceedingly well deserved\, Kimberly mostly couldn’t believe just how smart\, absorbing and inspirational the book feels in 2020. \nPerhaps overshadowed by the works of Toni Morrison\, Maya Angelou and even the inimitable Zora Neale Hurston—whom Walker resurrected from literary oblivion—Walker’s masterpiece deserves more attention and our careful dissection. Join Kimberly for this delicious novel\, one that’s particularly important as we Americans examine longstanding thoughts about sex\, race and inequity. \n Book will be shipped directly to you so that you may read it prior to the seminar. You may also choose to pick the book up at Kepler’s in Menlo Park as another option.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-literary-seminar-the-color-purple-by-alice-walker/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:mai c. doan
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 19\, 2021 | 5:00 pm PDT | Zoom (RSVP to receive the event link)\nmai c. doan is a mixed femme poet and writer from Southern California. She has published and performed her work though the National Queer Arts Festival\, Entropy Magazine\, the Poetry Project\, and more. She holds an MFA from Mills College\, where she attended as a Community Engagement Fellow. water/tongue (Omnidawn\, 2019)\, her first full-length book\, is a 2020 Lambda Literary Award nominee\, is. Find her on the internet at maicdoan.com.
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #51
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom!\nFREE AND ALL WELCOME!\n\nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/4nYSi5fLNyo229Lj9\n\nIf you enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via:\n\n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress;\n2) donating via the “ticket” option here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/…/nomadic-press-weekly…; OR\n3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate\nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150.\nPandemic times continue in 2021 and we continue to gather our community virtually across state and country lines. Join us to read\, join us to listen. All are welcome.\nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with Tula Biederman on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us!\n\nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess.\n\nZoom Joining Info\nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Weekly Virtual Open Mic\nTime: Jan 1\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Fri\, until Dec 10\, 2021\, 50 occurrence(s)\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nWeekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZcudeqoqjIiE9fnl7dxuB…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83323049893\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83323049893# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83323049893# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 833 2304 9893\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kvor64nsu
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SUMMARY:Spirit Houses: KSW Presents Maw Shein Win & Khaty Xiong
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, March 19th\, KSW Presents “Spirit Houses” a reading featuring Maw Shein Win\, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House (Omnidawn\, 2020) and Khaty Xiong\, author of Poor Anima (Apogee Press\, 2015). This event is a celebration of Maw Shein Win’s newest collection and of both poets’ powerful work performing rituals of grief\, pain\, and the life after it and with it. \n\n\n\nLEARN MORE | TICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spirit-houses-ksw-presents-maw-shein-win-khaty-xiong/
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CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tres Pochos Y Black Freighter
DESCRIPTION:This event is a collaboration between Black Freighter Press & Alley Cat Books in San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Illuminate: A Night of Poetry in Solidarity with Asian and Asian American Communities
DESCRIPTION:ILLUMINATE is a virtual poetry reading and open mic in response to the rise in Anti-Asian violence and hate crimes\, which have increased by 1900% since the start of the pandemic. Open mic will center Asian\, Asian American\, and BIPOC poets standing in solidarity with the Asian and Asian American community during this time. \nILLUMINATE is co-curated by Greer Nakadegawa-Lee and Lauren Ito. This programming is presented as part of the Political Inheritance Exhibition co-presented by the Asian American Women Artists Association\, and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. \nClick Here for Open Mic Sign-Ups Here! \n**Please note that once Zoom Webinar reaches capacity\, you will still be able to view the event through our YouTube Stream. \nFeatured Poetry Readers \nYume Kim\nMaya Looney\nJenny Qi\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nLauren Ito \nYume Kim \nYume Kim is an alumni of San Francisco State University\, with an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is a Kundiman fellow recipient\, as well as the runner-up for the Michael Rubin Book Award in 2013. Her debut publication\, Reserve the Right\, is now available through Nomadic Press. Website: www.yumekim-poet.com \nMaya Looney \nMaya is a junior at Skyline Highschool and takes poetry classes in the basement of Temescal Library. She’s read poems for a couple years at the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival\, which when it’s not on zoom takes place near a bookstore where she spends too much money on art books. Instagram: @meyerlemonsketches \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee is 16 years old and a junior at Oakland Technical High School. She has written a poem every day for over two years now\, and she is the 2020 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. Her first chapbook \, “A Heart Full of Hallways” is out now with Nomadic Press. \nLauren Ito \nLauren Ito is a Gosei (fifth generation person of Japanese ancestry) poet\, community craftswoman\, and organizer committed to advancing equity through art and design. As an artist and organizer Lauren delves into the tensions inherited within diasporic experiences\, including explorations of American concentration camps\, political agency\, and home. Lauren’s work has been featured by The San Francisco Public Library\, The Seattle Times\, Japanese American National Museum\, and various performance venues. Instagram: @Lauren.Ito
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