Dakota and Diné Documentary Producer, Leya Hale, will share her process for developing story structures and character narratives for non-fiction documentary storytelling. The workshop will be followed by a Q&A. Collaborator: More Than a Single Story. This program is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. This writing workshop is part of...
Join poets, writers and creative writing teachers, Michael Kleber Diggs and Heid E. Erdrich in a wide ranging conversation on assumptions that are often made about their childhoods and cultural experiences. They will talk about how they write around audience expectations of what their upbringings must have been like, how they live as adults and...
Join writers, activists, collaborators, and friends, Sun Yung Shin and Shannon Gibney in a conversation about how they bridge distances between artistic genres, cultural and racial groups, historically marginalized communities,...
Join children's authors Mélina Mangal and Sarah Warren in an online conversation about why they write for children, how their biracial backgrounds influence their work, and the challenges and...
Join award-winning writers Hawona Sullivan Janzen and Antonio Duke in a conversation on Blackness, history and writing for the stage. As writers, historians, playwrights, actors and scholars,...
*This is a virtual event* Register here: https://tinyurl.com/2mz4hwys Panelist Bios: May Lee-Yang is a Hmong American writer, performer, and educator. Her debut poetry collection, How I Lost My Name, will be published in Spring 2025 through Sundress Press. She teaches creative writing at the University of Minnesota and is in the process of launching Mayhem Games, a...
*This is a virtual event* Register Here Panelist Bios: Mary Moore Easter is the author of a memoir The Way She Wants to Get There and four books of poetry including Free Papers, inspired by the testimony of Eliza Winston. She was the Founder and Director of Carleton College's dance program. In 2022, Carleton College named their new studios in...
Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) writers. Queer Births & Queer Battles: A Panel Discussion with Queer Voices Curators The four curators of Queer Voices, past and present, have been honored to celebrate the queer literary community of Minnesota and create space for all voices...
Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) writers. In Somali pastoral tradition, a genre of writing that depicts an idealized rural life, language is the richest possession – carried like water, full of poetry, memory, and heritage. Join Somali American writers Marian Hassan and Ahmed Ismail...
This is an online event please Register Here Panelist Bios: Payal Doshi is the author of Rea and the Blood of the Nectar, a middle grade fantasy novel and recipient of the IPPY Gold Award. Her young adult short story, “A Confluence of Fates” can be found in the YA anthology, My Big, Fat, Desi Wedding. Her...
