Cultural Storytelling: Tapping into Speculative Fiction’s Revolutionary Potential
When: July 19 – 20, 2025 @ 5PM – 9PM UTC (click here to convert to your timezone)
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Where: Online over Zoom
Price: 50 – 125 USD (Scholarships available!)
Cultural storytelling—the storytelling traditions and structures that arise from one’s cultural background—is a strength of BIPOC writers, yet many feel constrained by traditional “Western” (read: white) storytelling features. While many find validation in rewriting “normative” structures with characters of color, BIPOC+ storytellers have the opportunity to break into the storytelling conventions of our non-dominant backgrounds.
In this weekend workshop, join instructor Naseem Jamnia as we examine how our “non-normative” experiences affect our understanding of “good craft” to shape stories that not only include characters who look like us, but themes, plot and emotional beats, characterization, and overall structures that better reflect the cultural traditions we come from.
You will be provided a reading packet beforehand to prepare for the class, including various craft essays, short story examples, and brainstorming prompts. After, you will walk away with exercises and guided questions, along with examples of non-dominant storytelling featues and recommended readings to encourage your exploration.
Please note that this class will be recorded.
How To Finish Your Novel – A Weekend Workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa
NEW DATE: November 29 – 30, 2025 @ 5PM – 7:30PM UTC (click here to convert to your timezone)
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Where: Online over Zoom
Price: 50 – 125 USD (Scholarships available!)
Are you a writer with a book in your head but virtually no time to write it? Maybe you have a day job, school to attend, family members to care for, various life responsibilities grabbing at you, and so that book has languished away on the backburner, and you’re worried you’ll never get to complete it. Now there isn’t even NaNoWriMo to help kick you into gear!
Author and creative writing professor Suyi Davies Okungbowa has been there, and is here to tell you that, in spite of these pressures, you can still finish this book. It may take you longer than many, but you will get there. Come on this weekend with us, and he’ll show you how.
In this two-day class, Suyi combines principles from strategic project culture (honed during his time in a former corporate role) and the tips, tricks and techniques he has built up in his author career to deliver a pathway to starting and finishing your book.
Please note that this class will be recorded.
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