Registration now open for IWL Summer Sessions
IWL Summer Sessions provides an opportunity for students to work with experienced teaching artists in poetry and prose in two 4-week sessions during July and August. Applicants can apply for one or both sessions.
Individual Class: $275 | Both Classes: $450
Session 1: Prose with Tara Dorabji
Class Times (ONLINE): Tuesdays 6-8pm | July 14, 21, 28, Aug 4
Course Description: The Power of Voice: A generative workshop exploring the power of voice in fiction and narrative nonfiction. Participants will have opportunities to generate material on themes of love, loss, culture and relationships and build their craft skills through discussion and practices of resonance. The workshop builds on power building frameworks, exploring the workshop throughline: How can storytelling advance cultural sovereignty and transform worldviews?
Instructor Bio: Tara Dorabji is the award-winning author of the novel, Call Her Freedom, Simon and Schuster’s Books Like Us Grand Prize Winner. Tara’s documentary film series on human rights defenders in Kashmir won awards at over a dozen film festivals throughout Asia and the USA. Her publications include Al Jazeera, The Chicago Quarterly, Huizache, People.com and acclaimed anthologies: Good Girls Marry Doctors & All the Women in My Family Sing. The daughter of Parsi-Indian and German-Italian migrants, she lives in Northern California with her rabbit.
Session 2: Poetry with Jade Cho
Class Times (ONLINE): Wednesdays 6-8pm | Aug 12, 19, 26, Sep 2
Course Description: (Coming Soon)
Instructor Bio: Jade Cho is a poet and educator from Oakland, California. A recent Stegner Fellow and finalist for the National Poetry Series, her poetry has appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Adroit Journal, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, where she studied and taught in Poetry for the People, and Arizona State University, where she served as a June Jordan Teaching Fellow. A grandchild of immigrants from Hoisan (Toisan/Taishan), she is working on a book tracing memory, grief, and desire through the archive of Chinese Exclusion and the Chinese Confession Program. She lives and teaches in the Bay Area.