Storytellers writing workshop Feb. 26
A Gathering of Storytellers Writing Workshop will take place Saturday February 26th from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the MSUM Women’s Center, 154 Bridges. Facilitated by Sherry Quan Lee and Lori Young-Williams (see bios below) this writing workshop encourages reflection on our lives and identities. The workshop is open to all community members, for beginners to advanced writers as well as non-writers. We all have stories. Free lunch and snacks provided. Please RSVP by Thursday February 24th to participate and forward widely to interested participants.
We will be writing the people in our lives:
• Join us in summoning the past, witnessing the present, and invoking the future.
• Confront, embrace, and document the stories of people who have travelled with us, who we love (or don\’t).
• Affirm the complexity of who they/we are based on the intersectionalities of race, class, gender, ability, and age.
Lori Young-Williams’ writing focuses on family/family relationships. She is currently completing a MLS degree at the University of Minnesota focusing on the migration of Black families from the South to the North. Lori has been published in Interrace magazine, the Turtle River Press, the National Library of Poetry, Quill Books, Dust & Fire and other anthologies.
Sherry Quan Lee approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic. Currently she is a Program Associate for the Split Rock Arts Program at the University of Minnesota. Quan Lee is the author of A Little Mixed Up, Chinese Blackbird, a memoir in verse, republished 2008, and How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman’s life, 2008. (http://www.blog.sherryquanlee.com)