Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers

Eirinie Carson, Sabina Khan-Ibarra, Rowena Leong Singer, and Grace Loh Prasad

The Brower Center - Tamalpais Room

Our workshop will start with a panel discussion, comprised of BIPOC writers who are part of the Rooted & Written program, on how we integrate our histories into our work.

This session will blend conversation and craft on how we listen to, record, and honor ancestral knowledge on the page, without flattening it for mainstream expectations. Then we’ll talk about writing. Using guided prompts, participants will draft ideas for new work that gathers memory, place, language, and family stories into poems, micro-essays, or short scenes.

We will include the following genres in our workshop: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction/Personal Essays.

What Participants Will Learn: ways to transform oral history, family artifacts, and community memory into scenes, images, and lines.

There will not be table space provided in our Writers' Workshop venues, so in addition to bringing paper and a pen, we recommend bringing a book or other hard surface to write on.

In association with Rooted & Written (at The Writers Grotto)

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