1 Session: Thursday, March 6
6:00-8:00pm ET
Michael Zapata

This one-part seminar is taught by award winning novelist and editor Michael Zapata, author of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, among others, and founding editor of Make Literary Magazine. He is the recent recipient of the Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award. In Axios, Michael Zapata’s work was called an important “part of the growing Latino-futurism movement.”

“The walls are the publishers of the poor.” - Eduardo Galeano

From the Mexican Revolution to student and indigenous led protests in Ecuador, to national teacher strikes, to the feminist Combahee River Collective, every movement for social change starts with both the inequitable conditions that created it and also a narrative of how the past and future collide with the present. Literature, with all its vast interiority and mind-bending possibility, is vital to resistance and revolution.

Through selected readings and discussions of multi-genre writers such as Eduardo Galeano, Roberto Bolaño, China Miéville, Audre Lorde, and Emily Raboteau, this class will explore the indispensable relationship between revolution, resistance, and writing. This class will include a short lecture on writers from various social movements in history, craft discussions on multi-genre works (poetry, CNF, fiction, and hybrid forms), and a writing exercise.

Workshop Highlights:

• A fun and joyful study of revolutionary writers.

• A deeper understanding of how writers who confront a social or political order can impact our own work.

• The seminar will also include a Q&A.

Two full scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Wednesday, February 26.