*Time sensitive! Starting soon!“I want to rediscover the secret of great speech, and of great burning.”
Aime Cesaire, Notebook of a Return to The Native Land
In 8 transformative weeks, you’ll be introduced to a reframing of creative writing craft that affirms its profound interconnection with our longing for social justice. The innovative approaches will help you expand your own web of associations, your creative terrain, your power to investigate the worlds of your writing; helping you reach, for example, what may have seemed invisible—the hidden cost, the hidden crime, the hidden gifts—the hidden story.
The brief reading selections for class are far-reaching, multicultural and interdisciplinary —they don’t merely illustrate that extraordinary craft can be intertwined with concerns for social, economic and environmental justice—but how. You’ll acquire many tools to help you express your deepest concerns, including techniques for writing what may seem too enormous or too painful to attempt; ways to rediscover and recontextualize language; the use of loaded words, metaphors of critique, and concentric circles, to bring context forward; and the tool of imaginative knowing.
Then, for writing during class, and larger writing suggestions between classes, you’ll be offered a series of explorations (not simply exercises!) known to pull forth streams of surprising and powerful writing. Participants will have a forum on which to post their work and exchange feedback with each other. My main job will be to teach this dynamic approach in real time, answer your questions, and open doors for your writing. Together we will examine some of what is at the heart of writing that can break the social silences, recover people’s history, reveal connections among all things and beings, and re-dream a just world.
All levels of experience welcome to this course that challenges limiting conventional approaches; gives routes into the expansion of creativity, craft, and content; and is highly generative of new writing.
A dream can be the highest point of a life.
—Nigerian writer Ben Okri, The Famished Road
We will have 8 Zoom classes to present this ground-breaking approach, with writings in class, and between-classes writing explorations; wide-ranging reference lists and supplementary readings.
Course fee: $360.
To register, write me at thedisobedientwriter@gmail.com with “Re-Dream Registration” in the subject line of the email.
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