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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: Turning Life into Fiction with Carolyn Holbrook
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThrough Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: There’s no doubt that your life has been full of interesting\, fun or painful events that you have wanted to write about. Maybe you want to reveal names\, dates or places — but maybe you fear that you might hurt someone or worse\, that you may be sued. Should our stories be written as truthful essays or memoirs\, or as fiction? Toni Morrison said “Teaching is about taking things apart; writing is about putting things together.” In this class we will play with writing your story as both memoir and fiction. The point is to help you consider which genre(s) you are most comfortable telling your truths in. \nClick here to register! \nCarolyn Holbrook’s memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award in memoir/creative nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (UMN Press) and is co-author with Dr. Josie Johnson and Arleta Little of Hope in the Struggle (UMN Press). Her essays have been published in anthologies including A Good Time For the Truth and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. Her 2022 TEDx talk\, The Life you Live is the Legacy You will Leave\, was presented at Concordia College in Moorhead\, She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2025 McKnight Distinguished Artist.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-turning-life-into-fiction/
LOCATION:East Lake Library\, 2727 E. Lake St.\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Our Stories Ourselves- Still Here: Together Through The Storm
DESCRIPTION:  \nTo register click here \nPANELISTS\nSuleiman Adan is a first-generation Somali American community leader\, educator\, chaplain\, and advocate whose work spans faith\, civil rights\, higher education\, prison chaplaincy\, and community organizing. He serves in leadership roles dedicated to supporting families\, strengthening communities\, and advancing justice across Minnesota. As a husband and father\, Suleiman brings both professional experience and lived perspective to conversations about navigating the challenges of recent years from racial reckoning and the pandemic to immigration enforcement and community resilience. He believes that every person and every community deserves to be seen in their full humanity\, because no individual or community can ever be defined by a single story. \nKahlil and Felicia Permenter are high school sweethearts from the Washington\, DC metro area. They have been married for 18 years and are the proud parents of 3 children. In 2020 they moved with their family from Arizona to the Twin Cities. Kahlil is an Air Force veteran turned chiropractor\, and Felicia is an ICU nurse turned Integrative Nurse Practitioner. In 2024 after\ncompleting their graduate programs they partnered with a colleague to open Right Spot Wellness\, an integrative care and chiropractic clinic located in Roseville. They are passionate about serving their community through providing high quality\, holistic care for the whole person. Collectively their philosophy is that wellness can be fun\, and joy brings healing. \nLongtime residents of South Minneapolis\, Xavier and Tina Tavera have spent more than two decades raising their two children in the community. They share a deep passion for the arts that permeates every aspect of their careers\, community engagement\, and creative practices. Both are established artists in their own right who regularly collaborate on creative projects. Rooted in a shared commitment to education and social justice\, community advocacy is a central theme in their involvement and creative work.Currently\, Xavier serves as a photography professor at Carleton College while Tina works as a consultant for Public Art for the City of Minneapolis and is director of the non-profit Serpentina Arts. \nMee Yang and Sebastian Sae-Mua. Mee is an aspiring writer and realtor. She grew up in Wisconsin and moved to Minnesota in 2012. Mee serves the Hmong community as a realtor often explaining the home buying process in Hmong and helping families purchase their next home. Sebastian works for Ramsey County and grew up in Thailand. He came to the United States as an international student in 2011 where they met during Thanksgiving. They married in 2012. Sebastian serves the Hmong community as a qeej player playing the traditional six reed bamboo instrument at traditional Hmong ceremonies. Mee and Sebastian live in Minnesota with their five children. They petitioned for Sebastian’s mother from Thailand and she also lives with\nthem. \nMODERATORS\nMakayla Overton and Jaquane Williams met during Makayla's senior year at Norfolk State University in Norfolk\, VA. In 2025\, Makayla decided to move back home to Minnesota\, and Jaquane\, happily followed. Since the relocation to Minnesota\, Jaquane has been continuing his work in the electrical field as a Electromechanical Technician\, and Makayla is currently serving\nthe community as a Case Manager Supervisor at The Bridge for Youth. Both of them have been happy to be in Minnesota and excited to continue to grow their community. \nOPENING POET\nAshley E. Wynter is a writer\, editor\, curator\, and community organizer living in Saint Paul. Invested in the transformative power of storytelling\, Wynter is also poetry mentor and program coordinator for More Than a Single Story’s emerging black writers program. Her award-winning poetry has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board\, the Loft Mentor Series\, the\nCarolyn Moore Writers Residency\, the Tofte Lake Center National Emerging Artist Residency\, and most recently\, a 2025-28 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Wynter’s poems have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in the Black Warrior Review\, Torch Literary Arts\, The Florida Review\, New Millenium\, and elsewhere. Her poetry and visual art collaboration\, “I Too\, Am America\,” was\nexhibited at the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery in 2026
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/our-stories-ourselves-still-here-together-through-the-storm/
LOCATION:Rondo Library at Hallie Q. Brown Center\, 270 N Kent St.\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Our Story Ourselves
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Writer to Writer: Verses\, Voices\, and Fatherhood with Bao Phi and Douglas Kearney
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Kearney and Bao Phi will talk about how a chance meeting at a small poetry reading in a club in Downtown Minneapolis turned into freestyle rap emails\, parallel but divergent careers in literature\, and melding their lives to adapt to being fathers of color in America. Which is a fancy way of saying that two word nerds whose friendship spans across nearly three decades will talk about art\, life\, and random subjects that tickle their fancy. \n*This is an online event* \nClick here to register! \nBao Phi is a Vietnamese American refugee\, a Minnesotan\, spoken word artist\, poet\, children’s book author\, and single co-parent father. He has authored two poetry collections\, Song I Sing and Thousand Star Hotel\, and five picture books\, including A Different Pond\, which was named one of the best books of the quarter century by Kirkus Reviews\, and\, most recently\, Ride / Đ p Xe. He was on the editorial team of the AANHPI poetry anthology\, We The Gathered Heat. His work is anthologized in collections such as A Good Time for the Truth\, Octavia’s Brood\, and a special 2025 issue of McSweeney’s. Among the recognitions he’s received are multiple City Pages and Star Tribune Artist of the Year awards\, a Caldecott Honor\, the Charlotte Zolotow Award for Outstanding Writing in a Picture Book\, and the 2024 Kay Sexton Award. His fifth children’s book is forthcoming from Capstone in fall of 2026\, and his first book of creative prose is forthcoming from Coffeehouse Press in winter of 2027. \nDouglas Kearney is a poet\, essayist and librettist. His newest book\, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always won the NYPL Best Book of 2025\, a Minnesota Book Award\, and was a 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalist (poetry). In 2023\, Optic Subwoof won the Pegasus Prize for Poetry Criticism (Poetry Foundation) and the CLMP Firecracker Award for CNF. His seventh\, Sho\, won a Griffin Poetry Prize and an MN Book Award. Kearney won OPERA America’s Campbell Opera Librettist Prize. His five operas include Sweet Land (Music Critics of NA Best Opera of 2021)\, and The Comet / Poppea\, a 2025 Pulitzer finalist (music) and a New York Times selection for best Classical Music of 2025. Kearney is a Cy Twombly awardee with residencies/fellowships including Cave Canem\, The Rauschenberg Foundation\, and The McKnight Foundation. Kearney is a Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and a Distinguished McKnight Professor of English at the University of Minnesota –Twin Cities.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/writer-to-writer-verses-voices-and-fatherhood-with-bao-phi-and-douglas-kearney/
LOCATION:MN
CATEGORIES:Writer to Writer
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: Writing Through Trauma with Carolyn Holbrook
DESCRIPTION:Through Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: When we experience trauma\, we feel alone and unprotected. Whether the trauma is physical or psychological\, we often feel shame\, believing that what happened is our fault. In this workshop we will learn tools and techniques for using the journal to tap into our innate abilities to help ourselves heal and restore wellness\, and to begin to believe that we are not the problem\, the problem is the problem. This class is not intended to replace any healing work you’re doing\, whether you’re receiving talk therapy\, bodywork\, yoga\, painting\, running\, cooking\, making music\, or any other healing modalities you are engaged in. Instead\, it is intended to encourage you to use your journal as a way of enhancing other forms of healing. The intention is for you to leave the workshop feeling affirmed and empowered. \nClick here to register! \nCarolyn Holbrook’s memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award in memoir/creative nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (UMN Press) and is co-author with Dr. Josie Johnson and Arleta Little of Hope in the Struggle (UMN Press). Her essays have been published in anthologies including A Good Time For the Truth and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. Her 2022 TEDx talk\, The Life you Live is the Legacy You will Leave\, was presented at Concordia College in Moorhead\, She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2025 McKnight Distinguished Artist.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-writing-through-trauma-with-carolyn-holbrook/
LOCATION:Oxboro Library\, 8801 Portland Ave. S\, Bloomington\, MN\, 55420\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: Writing Through Trauma with Carolyn Holbrook
DESCRIPTION:Through Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: When we experience trauma\, we feel alone and unprotected. Whether the trauma is physical or psychological\, we often feel shame\, believing that what happened is our fault. In this workshop we will learn tools and techniques for using the journal to tap into our innate abilities to help ourselves heal and restore wellness\, and to begin to believe that we are not the problem\, the problem is the problem. This class is not intended to replace any healing work you’re doing\, whether you’re receiving talk therapy\, bodywork\, yoga\, painting\, running\, cooking\, making music\, or any other healing modalities you are engaged in. Instead\, it is intended to encourage you to use your journal as a way of enhancing other forms of healing. The intention is for you to leave the workshop feeling affirmed and empowered. \nClick here to register! \nCarolyn Holbrook’s memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award in memoir/creative nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (UMN Press) and is co-author with Dr. Josie Johnson and Arleta Little of Hope in the Struggle (UMN Press). Her essays have been published in anthologies including A Good Time For the Truth and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. Her 2022 TEDx talk\, The Life you Live is the Legacy You will Leave\, was presented at Concordia College in Moorhead\, She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2025 McKnight Distinguished Artist.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-writing-through-trauma-with-carolyn-holbrook-2/
LOCATION:Minneapolis Central Library\, 300 Nicollet Mall\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55401\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: Turning Life into Fiction with Carolyn Holbrook
DESCRIPTION:Through Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: There’s no doubt that your life has been full of interesting\, fun or painful events that you have wanted to write about. Maybe you want to reveal names\, dates or places — but maybe you fear that you might hurt someone or worse\, that you may be sued. Should our stories be written as truthful essays or memoirs\, or as fiction? Toni Morrison said “Teaching is about taking things apart; writing is about putting things together.” In this class we will play with writing your story as both memoir and fiction. The point is to help you consider which genre(s) you are most comfortable telling your truths in. \nClick here to register! \nCarolyn Holbrook’s memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award in memoir/creative nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (UMN Press) and is co-author with Dr. Josie Johnson and Arleta Little of Hope in the Struggle (UMN Press). Her essays have been published in anthologies including A Good Time For the Truth and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. Her 2022 TEDx talk\, The Life you Live is the Legacy You will Leave\, was presented at Concordia College in Moorhead\, She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2025 McKnight Distinguished Artist.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-turning-life-into-fiction-with-carolyn-holbrook/
LOCATION:Webber Park Library\, 4440 N Humboldt Ave\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55412\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: The Poem as a Container with Ashley E. Wynter
DESCRIPTION:Through Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: In this class\, writers will be encouraged to imagine the poem as a container—a way to hold our ghosts and ancestors\, our memories and hauntings\, our questions and uncertainties\, old loves and new flames\, the wildness of our secret selves. And what happens when we place a certain feeling\, memory\, or thought into a specific poetic structure? The sonnet\, perhaps? Or Airea D. Matthews’ “Letters to My Would-be Lover…”? Seeking to balance the physical and metaphorical pressurizer that is poetry\, this generative workshop will guide attendees through a series of “rapid-fire” writing exercises and imitations—each designed to nurture the instinct of writing\, to move the poet out of their ow way! Participants will leave energized\, with several musings and poem drafts that can be carried into tomorrow. \nClick here to register! \nA.E. Wynter is a writer\, editor\, curator\, and community organizer living in Saint Paul\, MN. Invested in the transformative power of storytelling\, Wynter is the poetry mentor and program coordinator for More Than a Single Story’s emerging black writers program. Her award-winning poetry has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board\, the Loft Mentor Series\, the Carolyn Moore Writers Residency\, the Tofte Lake Center National Emerging Artist Residency\, and most recently\, a 2025-28 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Wynter’s poems have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in the Black Warrior Review\, Torch Literary Arts\, The Florida Review\, New Millenium\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-the-poem-as-a-container-with-ashley-e-wynter/
LOCATION:Washburn Library\, 5244 Lyndale Ave. S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55419\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261029T193000
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CREATED:20260816T004906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260816T004906Z
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SUMMARY:A Novel in November Writing Workshops with Marcie Rendon
DESCRIPTION:Workshop description: This week we will spend time deciding the genre of your novel\, where it will take place\, and the arc of the story. We will also work with character development: Who your characters will be: the protagonist\, the antagonist\, and a side-kick. \nClick here to register! \nMarcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation\, author\, playwright\, poet\, and freelance writer. Also a community arts activist\, Rendon supports other native artists / writers / creators to pursue their art\, and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues\, leadership\, writing. She is an award-winning author of a fresh new murder mystery series\, and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works. The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater\, Rendon has also curated community created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience\, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists\, which premiered on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television)\, June 2019.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/a-novel-in-november-writing-workshops-with-marcie-rendon/
LOCATION:Roosevelt Library\, 4026 28th Ave. S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
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SUMMARY:A Novel in November Writing Workshops with Marcie Rendon
DESCRIPTION:In this session we will consider our main characters’ back stories. What was the defining moment in each character’s life that made them who they are in the ‘today’ of your novel? What does each character want more than anything in the world? What are they willing to do to get it? We will also continue to develop the setting that will support and determine the action of your characters. \nClick here to register! \nMarcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation\, author\, playwright\, poet\, and freelance writer. Also a community arts activist\, Rendon supports other native artists / writers / creators to pursue their art\, and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues\, leadership\, writing. She is an award-winning author of a fresh new murder mystery series\, and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works. The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater\, Rendon has also curated community created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience\, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists\, which premiered on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television)\, June 2019.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/a-novel-in-november-writing-workshops-with-marcie-rendon-2/
LOCATION:Roosevelt Library\, 4026 28th Ave. S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261107T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261107T170000
DTSTAMP:20260815T183016Z
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: Writing Through Trauma with Carolyn Holbrook
DESCRIPTION:Through Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: When we experience trauma\, we feel alone and unprotected. Whether the trauma is physical or psychological\, we often feel shame\, believing that what happened is our fault. In this workshop we will learn tools and techniques for using the journal to tap into our innate abilities to help ourselves heal and restore wellness\, and to begin to believe that we are not the problem\, the problem is the problem. This class is not intended to replace any healing work you’re doing\, whether you’re receiving talk therapy\, bodywork\, yoga\, painting\, running\, cooking\, making music\, or any other healing modalities you are engaged in. Instead\, it is intended to encourage you to use your journal as a way of enhancing other forms of healing. The intention is for you to leave the workshop feeling affirmed and empowered. \nClick here to register! \nCarolyn Holbrook’s memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award in memoir/creative nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (UMN Press) and is co-author with Dr. Josie Johnson and Arleta Little of Hope in the Struggle (UMN Press). Her essays have been published in anthologies including A Good Time For the Truth and Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota. Her 2022 TEDx talk\, The Life you Live is the Legacy You will Leave\, was presented at Concordia College in Moorhead\, She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the 2025 McKnight Distinguished Artist.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-writing-through-trauma-with-carolyn-holbrook-3/
LOCATION:North Regional Library\, 1315 Lowry Ave N.\, Minneapolis\, Minnesota\, 55411\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261110T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261110T150000
DTSTAMP:20260815T184854Z
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: The Poem as a Container with Ashley E. Wynter
DESCRIPTION:Through Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: In this class\, writers will be encouraged to imagine the poem as a container—a way to hold our ghosts and ancestors\, our memories and hauntings\, our questions and uncertainties\, old loves and new flames\, the wildness of our secret selves. And what happens when we place a certain feeling\, memory\, or thought into a specific poetic structure? The sonnet\, perhaps? Or Airea D. Matthews’ “Letters to My Would-be Lover…”? Seeking to balance the physical and metaphorical pressurizer that is poetry\, this generative workshop will guide attendees through a series of “rapid-fire” writing exercises and imitations—each designed to nurture the instinct of writing\, to move the poet out of their ow way! Participants will leave energized\, with several musings and poem drafts that can be carried into tomorrow. \nClick here to register! \nA.E. Wynter is a writer\, editor\, curator\, and community organizer living in Saint Paul\, MN. Invested in the transformative power of storytelling\, Wynter is the poetry mentor and program coordinator for More Than a Single Story’s emerging black writers program. Her award-winning poetry has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board\, the Loft Mentor Series\, the Carolyn Moore Writers Residency\, the Tofte Lake Center National Emerging Artist Residency\, and most recently\, a 2025-28 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Wynter’s poems have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in the Black Warrior Review\, Torch Literary Arts\, The Florida Review\, New Millenium\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-the-poem-as-a-container-with-ashley-e-wynter-2/
LOCATION:East Lake Library\, 2727 E. Lake St.\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55407
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261112T193000
DTSTAMP:20260816T005418Z
CREATED:20260816T005418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260816T005418Z
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SUMMARY:A Novel in November Writing Workshops with Marcie Rendon
DESCRIPTION:Workshop description: We will spend our final session sharing what we wrote in the previous two sessions \nClick here to register! \nMarcie R. Rendon is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation\, author\, playwright\, poet\, and freelance writer. Also a community arts activist\, Rendon supports other native artists / writers / creators to pursue their art\, and is a speaker for colleges and community groups on Native issues\, leadership\, writing. She is an award-winning author of a fresh new murder mystery series\, and also has an extensive body of fiction and nonfiction works. The creative mind behind Raving Native Theater\, Rendon has also curated community created performances such as Art Is… Creative Native Resilience\, featuring three Anishinaabe performance artists\, which premiered on TPT (Twin Cities Public Television)\, June 2019. \n 
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/a-novel-in-november-writing-workshops-with-marcie-rendon-3/
LOCATION:Roosevelt Library\, 4026 28th Ave. S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55406
CATEGORIES:Writing Workshop
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: The Poem as Protest with Ashley E. Wynter
DESCRIPTION:Through Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: Poetry lives in a world of multitudes—it moves through us hungry and delectable\, fleeting and resonant\, sonic and physical\, as both an act of remembrance and erasure. Whenreading poetry\, we invite an unnamable force to make a home of us\, to rewire our body andmind. In this way\, the act of reading or writing a poem is transformative\, rebellious even. In this class\, writers will be encouraged to lean into this rebellious nature\, to imagine the poem as an agent of change\, an act of protest—against social injustice and gender norms\, against false narratives and personal misbeliefs\, against opposers of love\, land\, and humanity. Participants will read and discuss short poems that navigate an expansive idea of “protest\,” responding to related prompts with their own spontaneous writing. Writers will leave the workshop feeling affirmed\, energized\, and empowered. \nClick here to register! \nA.E. Wynter is a writer\, editor\, curator\, and community organizer living in Saint Paul\, MN. Invested in the transformative power of storytelling\, Wynter is the poetry mentor and program coordinator for More Than a Single Story’s emerging black writers program. Her award-winning poetry has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board\, the Loft Mentor Series\, the Carolyn Moore Writers Residency\, the Tofte Lake Center National Emerging Artist Residency\, and most recently\, a 2025-28 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Wynter’s poems have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in the Black Warrior Review\, Torch Literary Arts\, The Florida Review\, New Millenium\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-the-poem-as-protest-with-ashley-e-wynter/
LOCATION:Arvonne Fraser Library\, 1222 4th St. S.E.\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55414\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261115T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261115T160000
DTSTAMP:20260815T190208Z
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: The Poem as Protest with Ashley E. Wynter
DESCRIPTION:Through Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: Poetry lives in a world of multitudes—it moves through us hungry and delectable\, fleeting and resonant\, sonic and physical\, as both an act of remembrance and erasure. Whenreading poetry\, we invite an unnamable force to make a home of us\, to rewire our body andmind. In this way\, the act of reading or writing a poem is transformative\, rebellious even. In this class\, writers will be encouraged to lean into this rebellious nature\, to imagine the poem as an agent of change\, an act of protest—against social injustice and gender norms\, against false narratives and personal misbeliefs\, against opposers of love\, land\, and humanity. Participants will read and discuss short poems that navigate an expansive idea of “protest\,” responding to related prompts with their own spontaneous writing. Writers will leave the workshop feeling affirmed\, energized\, and empowered. \nClick here to register! \nA.E. Wynter is a writer\, editor\, curator\, and community organizer living in Saint Paul\, MN. Invested in the transformative power of storytelling\, Wynter is the poetry mentor and program coordinator for More Than a Single Story’s emerging black writers program. Her award-winning poetry has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board\, the Loft Mentor Series\, the Carolyn Moore Writers Residency\, the Tofte Lake Center National Emerging Artist Residency\, and most recently\, a 2025-28 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Wynter’s poems have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in the Black Warrior Review\, Torch Literary Arts\, The Florida Review\, New Millenium\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-the-poem-as-protest-with-ashley-e-wynter-2/
LOCATION:Plymouth Library\, 15700 36th Ave. N.\, Plymouth\, MN\, 55446\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261121T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261121T153000
DTSTAMP:20260815T190647Z
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Writing: The Poem as Protest with Ashley E. Wynter
DESCRIPTION:Through Rooted in Writing\, we will offer 1-3 single-session classes each season through the library’s systemwide catalog. \nThis is a new program with our long-time partner\, Hennepin County Library and is  funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. \nWorkshop description: Poetry lives in a world of multitudes—it moves through us hungry and delectable\, fleeting and resonant\, sonic and physical\, as both an act of remembrance and erasure. Whenreading poetry\, we invite an unnamable force to make a home of us\, to rewire our body andmind. In this way\, the act of reading or writing a poem is transformative\, rebellious even. In this class\, writers will be encouraged to lean into this rebellious nature\, to imagine the poem as an agent of change\, an act of protest—against social injustice and gender norms\, against false narratives and personal misbeliefs\, against opposers of love\, land\, and humanity. Participants will read and discuss short poems that navigate an expansive idea of “protest\,” responding to related prompts with their own spontaneous writing. Writers will leave the workshop feeling affirmed\, energized\, and empowered. \nClick here to register! \nA.E. Wynter is a writer\, editor\, curator\, and community organizer living in Saint Paul\, MN. Invested in the transformative power of storytelling\, Wynter is the poetry mentor and program coordinator for More Than a Single Story’s emerging black writers program. Her award-winning poetry has been supported by the Minnesota State Arts Board\, the Loft Mentor Series\, the Carolyn Moore Writers Residency\, the Tofte Lake Center National Emerging Artist Residency\, and most recently\, a 2025-28 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Wynter’s poems have appeared\, or are forthcoming\, in the Black Warrior Review\, Torch Literary Arts\, The Florida Review\, New Millenium\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://morethanasinglestory.com/event/rooted-in-writing-the-poem-as-protest-with-ashley-e-wynter-3/
LOCATION:Hosmer Library\, 347 E 36th St\, Mineapolis\, 55408\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="More Than A Single Story":MAILTO:mtassinfo@gmail.com
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