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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
DESCRIPTION:Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line\, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020\, Rise & Shine began as a daily writing group in response to the pandemic and NaPoWriMo. Now\, the morning meetings rotate throughout the year with different series. \nAbout This Group:\nThe purpose of this space is to generate new words on the page together. We welcome anyone who would like to start their day with an invigorating poetry writing prompt in a communal setting. Rise & Shine will stay free and donation-based to allow anyone access to this generative writing group. \nThe first hour is spent writing\, and whoever would like to stay and share is welcome to read their draft (not a critique space). Invite surprise onto the page! Discover what wants to be written on that particular day without judgment. Lean into the process. \nOdes:\nThe Winter 2021 series will meet Tuesday mornings at 9 am PST\, starting January 19 and ending March 9 (8 weeks). Our focus will be writing odes! \nAn ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object or thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. For the purposes of this workshop\, writing an ode simply means “paying particular attention to.” We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing\, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath. \n“Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” Anne Enright \nEach week\, the prompt will include an example ode for inspiration and some starting points\, including a broad topic for focus\, if you choose to take it. Like all Surprise the Line workshops\, you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. \nFor the comfort of participants\, these sessions will not be recorded.
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SUMMARY:Zetta Elliott on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:reading A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart\, a powerful\, affirming poem in which a Black child explores his shifting emotions throughout the year. \n“A resonant exultation of community and the importance of self-reflection.”–Publishers Weekly \nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 20\, 2021 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nThere is a place inside of me\na space deep down inside of me\nwhere all my feelings hide.  \nSummertime is filled with joy—skateboarding and playing basketball —until his community is deeply wounded by a police shooting. As fall turns to winter and then spring\, fear grows into anger\, then pride and peace. \nIn her stunning debut\, illustrator Noa Denmon articulates the depth and nuances of a child’s experiences following a police shooting–through grief and protests\, healing and community–with washes of color as vibrant as his words. \nHere is a groundbreaking narrative that can help all readers–children and adults alike–talk about the feelings hiding deep inside each of us. \nZetta Elliott is an award-winning Black feminist writer of poetry\, plays\, essays\, novels\, and stories for children. Her poetry has been published in We Rise\, We Resist\, We Raise Our Voices\, and her picture book\, Bird\, won the Honor Award in Lee & Low Books’ New Voices Contest and the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers. She lives in West Philadelphia.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Prepping to Publish: a workshop for writers of color
DESCRIPTION:Geared toward marginalized writers who may lack access to MFA programs\, workshops\, and conferences\, Prepping to Publish is a six-hour\, two-session intensive. Sonora will select 8 to 12 students based on the quality of their submissions\, and students will leave the course with a formatted manuscript\, a critiqued query letter\, and a tailored list of editors\, journals\, and publishing houses that might be a good home for their work. \n  \nInstructor: \nSONORA JHA\, Ph.D.\, is an essayist\, novelist\, and professor of journalism at Seattle University. She is the author of the novel Foreign (Random House India\, 2013) and the forthcoming How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood\, Masculinity\, and the Making of my Family (Sasquatch Books\, 2021). She teaches fiction and essay writing for the Richard Hugo House and Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat\, and her writing has garnered many awards and residencies. \n  \nThis workshop is part of a three-event collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United in support of writers of color. The events are made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \n  \nFor the other events\, please visit the links below: \n  \nPanel: Creating Our Own Table\, Wednesday\, April 7th\, 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aunt-lute-x-poc-united-presents-the-panel-creating-our-own-table-tickets-133253297199 \n  \nReading: Isolation\, Thursday\, May 13th\, 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aunt-lute-x-poc-united-presents-a-reading-isolation-tickets-133266558865 \n  \n  \nABOUT POC UNITED: \nPOC United is a literary safe space of creative play far removed from the white gaze\, a place where writers of color can focus on one another in solidarity. To showcase multi-genre works by writers of color\, POC United created GRAFFITI\, a bestselling anthology\, which is a Silver Winner of the 22nd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Anthologies. For more on POC United\, please visit pocunited.com. \n  \nFree \n  \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
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SUMMARY:Children's Book Reading: The Unexpected Friend
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Books of Berkeley online for children’s story time featuring a live read-aloud of The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya Children’s Story with author Raya Rahman. \nThe story centers around Faisal\, a young Rohingya boy in a Bangladeshi refugee camp\, who finds a bird with a broken wing and decides to take care of it with his sisters. Life in the camp is not always easy\, so the children are thrilled to have a pet to look after. But as the bird’s wing slowly heals\, they are faced with a difficult choice. Can they let go of something they dearly love? \nRSVP FOR ACCESS TO ZOOM EVENT\nhttps://unexpectedfriend.eventbrite.com \nCopies of The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya Children’s Story are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. \nAbout the Book\nIn the midst of a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh\, Faisal\, a young Rohingya boy\, finds an injured bird and decides to take care of it with his sisters. Life in the camp is not always easy and the children are thrilled to have a pet to look after. But as the bird’s wing slowly heals\, they face the dilemma of holding on to or losing something they dearly love. \nThoughtfully illustrated with detailed imagery\, The Unexpected Friend is a fictional story based on the real lives of Rohingya children living in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar\, Bangladesh. Their individual stories were compiled through the dedicated work of aid agencies Save the Children\, Plan International and World Vision and transformed into a storybook in partnership with Guba Publishing\, for the purpose of gifting it to the children in the camps. \nThe Rohingya are a Muslim minority of 1.3 million\, formerly living in the Rakhine State within Myanmar. Risking death by sea or on foot\, nearly 700\,000 have fled the destruction of their homes and persecution in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma) for neighboring Bangladesh since August 2017. Bangladesh now houses 1.1 million Rohingya refugees in the world’s largest refugee camp. \nThemed around universal childhood joys that are relatable by all children\, the story helps young children to empathize with situations that are different than their own. With artwork that authentically depicts life in a crowded refugee camp\, ‘The Unexpected Friend – A Rohingya Children’s Story’ is a fitting book to introduce children to social justice\, specifically the worldwide refugee humanitarian crisis. Profits from the sale of this book will be donated to Save the Children’s Rohingya Relief Fund. \nAbout the Author\nRaya Rahman is the founder of Guba Publishing. After a decade of working in the corporate world\, she now partners with other authors\, illustrators and non-profit organizations to publish diverse and multicultural children’s stories and learning resources. Raya lives in Oakland\, California with her husband and their two spirited daughters\, who were her main inspiration for starting a children’s publishing house. \nAbout the Illustrator\nInshra Russell is the founder of a boutique creative services agency called Studio Inku\, that works in partnership with Guba Publishing to create high quality picture books for children. Inshra is a multi-platform content creator with a portfolio of projects that includes short films\, photography\, illustrations\, graphic design and video production. She lives in London\, U.K. with her husband and their son\, Ruben. Find her on www.studioinku.com. \nEastwind Books Multicultural Services (EBMS) is a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to the promotion and accessibility of Asian American and Ethnic Multicultural Literature. Our events are for educational purposes and we appreciate your tax deductible donations. EBMS is the community education arm of Eastwind Books of Berkeley which is comprised of a dedicated staff of booksellers\, artists\, poets and community workers.
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