A 1-Day Writing Workshop
Saturday, March 29, 1 - 4 PM
How can we use our stories, poems, and essays to engage with and reflect upon the disasters of our time? How can we write through the grief and find hope? How do we ethically bare witness to the troubles of our world? This generative multigenre workshop will ask participants to write their way through these challenges and build stories that connect, illuminate, and deepen our understanding of disasters and the human response to them.
$90 Members/$135 Nonmembers
Shana Youngdahl is a poet, professor, and fiction writer. An award-winning educator, Shana loves helping people of all ages embrace the stories they need to tell and is lucky enough to do this for her work as Associate Professor of Writing in the MFA program at Lindenwood University. The author of two full-length poetry collections and several chapbooks, her debut novel for teens As Many Nows As I Can Get, was a 2020 ALA RISE title, a Kirkus Best Book of 2019, and a New York Public Library top-ten book of 2019 (Dial/Penguin Teen). Her second novel A Catalog of Burnt Objects (Dial/PenguinTeen) is due out March 18, 2025 and was inspired by the destruction of her hometown, Paradise, California in 2018’s Camp Fire. Connect with her online at www.shanayoungdahl.com, Instagram and Substack @shanayoungdahl
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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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