New Workshops in Nonfiction, Poetry, Speculative Fiction, and Hybrid Prose
Friends,
We have four new workshops coming up. Each is designed to help those who want to sharpen their writing skills, discuss craft and project ideas, and find potential new writing groups.
Also, please note that we offer both a sliding scale and a reduced rate for those who can’t make a class but would like to have access to the video recordings.
For more info on these discounts or if you have any questions about the classes, please email me at info@consequenceforum.org.
Thanks, and I hope you are all well.
Matthew Krajniak
Executive Editor
A free nonfiction writing workshop for writers ages fifteen to twenty-four whose lives or relationships have been affected by war, conflict, or global violence. Whether through family history, displacement, political instability, or community impact, this workshop invites writers to examine how large-scale events intersect with personal experience. You’ll explore how to craft compelling personal essays that reflect on history, identity, and the consequences of global crises—past and present.
This three-session workshop will feature writing activities, revision strategies, and feedback. You’ll have an opportunity to submit to the Young Writers Project. If your essay is accepted, you will be able to work with editors to further refine your writing.
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“The rules of grammar,” according to writer Janice Lee, “aren’t just a set of rules; they’re a set of expectations, conventions, agreements, and an archive of relationality and history.” In this course, we will explore how writers use grammar and its “archive” to order and disrupt, repeat and erase, embody and transform experience—not only to depict the violence of history, but also to examine and problematize language itself.
We will read and discuss works by Layli Long Soldier, M. NourbeSe Philip, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Rick Barot, and others, using these as invitations to generate new work. Participants will then revise one of their pieces for the fifth and final class, which will be a workshop.
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Terminal Learning Objective (TLO): Participants generate a short, speculative war story (up to 5,000 words) of publishable quality.
Session 1: The Hook
~Prework: read three military science fiction stories
~Enabling Learning Objective (ELO) 1: Understand what constitutes military fiction
~ELO 2: Understand the difference between science fiction and fantasy
~ELO 3: Write the first sentence of a war story
~Homework: write the backstory of your main character (100 words)
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Writing can be a powerful tool for processing the past, especially when it’s painful. The mind has tricks for coping with difficult events, hazing the details or even obliterating them. Maybe the trauma happened to you as a child, or before you were born. In this workshop, we will use personal documents as prompts to explore writing about the past. Each meeting in this generative three-week workshop will incorporate a different artifact: a photo, an official document, and a letter. The documents will be used as prompts for free writing exercises. After a short craft discussion, there will be side-by-side writing that expands upon the free writing exercises, followed by group sharing, and supportive feedback.
This workshop is for anyone interested in writing about complicated life events in memoir, creative nonfiction, personal essays, autofiction, or even just to explore the past. All writing levels are welcome.
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