Begins Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

The class will meet weekly via Zoom on Wednesdays, 6.30PM - 8.30PM Eastern 

*Sliding Scale Tuition is Available. Select what you can afford from the drop-down menu.

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Taught by Blaise Allysen Kearsley, a Black-biracial writer and teacher based in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in Catapult, Longreads, the Boston Globe, Electric Literature's The Nervous Breakdown, Elle, Midnight Breakfast, The Weeklings, and in the anthologies Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic, Nonwhite and Woman, and Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, And Abandoned Rock Operas. Blaise is a contributing editor at Vestal Review, the oldest flash fiction journal on the planet.

This virtual workshop is for writers of all levels who identify as Black, Indigenous, or a Person of Color. Each session functions as a space for building community with other BIPOC writers and creatives, a weekly invitation to show up for ourselves and for each other, to stand in our stories, translate our lived experiences onto the page, and allow our voice, mind, and heart to take us wherever they need us to go, and identify rituals and conditions that anchor us in our writing practice.

Rather than focusing on formal feedback, this generative workshop offers prompts, short text, visual art, mindfulness, and discussion to help us dig into a range of ideas, sensations, themes, subjects, and tools of the craft and cultivate a writing practice. We will set intentions and identify the conditions that allow us to converse with our most creative and imaginative selves.

COURSE OUTLINE: 

• Week 1 - Memory + Truthtelling
• Week 2 - Identity + Culture 
• Week 3 - Hardship + Levity
• Week 4 - Observation, Intuition + Imagination
• Week 5 - Form + Function
• Week 6 - The How + The Why

COURSE TAKEAWAYS:

• Deepen your creativity and generate a ton of fertile material;
• Find words for the complexities and richness of your lived experience;
• Discover new ideas and experiment with existing projects;
• Collect writing prompts you can use and modify again and again;
• Approach creativity in different ways and sharpen the tools of your art and your craft;
• A sense of accountability, energy, and camaraderie;
• Time for yourself and your own pursuits.

PAYMENT OPTIONS:

Tuition is Sliding Scale from $495 USD to $300.USD. You can pay for the course in full or use Shop Pay or Affirm to pay over time with equal Monthly Payments. Both options are available at checkout.

• Instructor: Blaise Allysen Kearsley
• This class will start on Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
• Live weekly sessions via Zoom 6.30PM - 8.30PM Eastern
• Tuition is Sliding Scale from $495 USD to $300.

Contact us HERE if you have any questions about this class.