A 5-Week Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Tuesdays: October 22 - November 19, 7-9 PM
In this generative workshop, writers will focus on a new style of essay every day. These styles will range from braided to flash, from meditations to explorations in food and travel. We will draw our inspiration from unexpected sources such as the natural world, urban spaces, fairy tales & folk lore, pop culture, food, and even the supernatural. Each day, writers will receive short readings as homework, followed by discussion, craft lectures, and generative prompts during class time. By the end of the week, attendees will have drafted at least five new essays and read a diverse range of contemporary essays for inspiration.
$275 Members/$475 Nonmembers
Born in Calcutta and raised in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta is the author of the upcoming essay collection Brown Women Have Everything. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. Her essays have been named as “Notable” by Best American Essays 2022 and 2023. Previous books include the short story collection Women Who Misbehave, the chapbook The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood, and Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, & the In-Between, a Finalist for the Foreword Indies Awards for Creative Nonfiction. She has been awarded a Centrum Foundation Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and the WILMA Woman of the Year award in Arts for 2022. Her writing has appeared in over 60 literary journals and magazines, including, The Rumpus, Scroll, Economic & Political Weekly, IIC Quarterly, Chicago Quarterly Review, and others. She is a contributing editor for Assay: A Journal of Creative Nonfiction and the founder of Write Wilmington, an online writing initiative that’s free and open to writers all around the world. Her research interests include Creative Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, South Asian History and Literature, Indian Cinema, World Religions, Fairy Tales, Folk Lore and Mythology. An Associate Professor of Creative Writing at UNC Wilmington, Sayantani has also taught writing in India, Italy, Colombia, and Mexico.
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SCHOLARSHIP
The MWPA is proud to offer one partial scholarship to this workshop for members-only. Scholarships are awarded on a combination of need and merit. Application Due by October 1 at 9:00 a.m.
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