1 Session: Thursday, April 25
6:00-8:00pm ET
Kavita Das

Kavita Das, the author of Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues who worked in social change for fifteen years before writing about social issues for a range of literary and journalistic outlets will teach Objectivity, Truth, and the Spaces In Between, a one day nonfiction craft seminar.

In this fraught moment when disinformation and hot takes have reached a fever pitch, notions of objectivity and the search for truth have taken on even more importance and meaning. But, does true objectivity exist given that all writers (and readers) have their own set of biases? If truth is a singular destination, what does it mean when a writer says they’re telling “their truth?” Through lectures, readings, and discussion, we’ll examine the concepts of objectivity, truth, and the spaces that exist in between in writing.

Workshop Highlights:

• We’ll parse the notion of objectivity and how it is impacted by undiverse newsrooms and publishing platforms.

• We’ll examine the concept of truth even as we explore how it is impacted by the lens of the narrator (“whose truth”).

• We’ll think about our own writing in this spectrum of veracity and what questions to ask of ourselves as responsible chroniclers and narrators.

1 full scholarship available. For information, please contact Kate Mabus, kate@theshipmanagency.com