*ONLINE COURSE*
Fiction Workshop with K-Ming Chang
Writing Family Stories
Dates: Monday, May 17 - Friday, May 21
Times: 6:00-7:30PM EST
Fee: $250
This workshop will explore the process of writing family narratives, whether fiction or nonfiction, examining the "family" (which can be defined many ways) as a framework for survival, history, agency, and reclamation. This is a generative class for those who want to carve out time to write and experiment. Through prompts and exercises, we will explore how family stories can function as microcosms of collective histories, as the fabric of folklore, myths, and oral stories, and as spaces for personal and collective exploration. We will rewrite or interact with family narratives to create spaces of subversion, resistance, and storytelling that expand beyond the self. Participants will generate short pieces of new writing in any genre, and they will leave the workshop with innovative strategies to approach stories about family (of all definitions).
K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the debut novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her micro-chapbook BONE HOUSE, a queer retelling of Wuthering Heights, is forthcoming from Bull City Press’ INCH series in 2021.
