Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) writers. Join author and playwright, Marcie Rendon (White Earth Nation) and documentary producer Leya Hale (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations) in a conversation on their writing and their lives. They will also discuss issues that affect their Indigenous communities...
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, spirituality, and liberatory activism. They will also discuss how others might bridge these gaps. Q&A session to follow. Register here: https://bit.ly/w2wfall2023 Sun Yung Shin (she/they) is the...
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 joys of writing fiction and nonfiction. Q&A session to follow. Register Here:https://bit.ly/w2wjan2024 Writer to Writer is a series featuring conversations between Black, Indigenous writers 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, Janzen and Duke believe writing is the only thing that can save us from ourselves. They will discuss their inspirations from the Black spiritual canon...
*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...
