Sliding scale $30-100 (via Venmo, Zelle, or PayPal)
Enrollment limited to 25 students max.
A GENERATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
with Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin
Boo! What do you want to write about, but have been too afraid to? In this generative creative writing workshop, open to writers of all genres, forms, and experience levels, students will learn to interrogate, understand, and embrace the element of fear in their work through writing prompts, readings about fear from such authors as John Steinbeck, Audre Lorde, and Carmen Maria Machado, and journaling questions on the position fear occupies in our lives, bodies, writing, and world. Together, we will discover how to write about, with, and for fear, and students will come away with a newfound sense of courage to write with, a reframed idea of fear to write through, and their own fears finally put onto the page and ready to be journeyed with. Prepare to confront your fears, to be thoughtful and vulnerable, and to write the thing you never thought you would.
About the instructor:
Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin (they/them) is a queer and trans, biracial, Vietnamese American diaspora writer whose work revolves around themes of dreaming, fantasizing, and futurizing, and focuses on topics of diaspora, transness, ecology, empire, and intergenerational histories. They are a Press Editor for Half Mystic Press, the Director of Culture & Programming at Rawhead, a Member of the Reader Board at Sundress Publications, and a Fiction Reader for Okay Donkey. Kyla-Yến's work has appeared in The Offing, Oroboro, Beyond Queer Words, Vănguard, and other publications. They have been awarded residencies, workshops, and/or fellowships from Tin House, the Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), Seventh Wave, Abode Press, and more. You can visit Kyla-Yến's author page at www.kylayenhuynhgiffin.com, and find them on Instagram @yenshrine.