Fables and the Fantastic: Reimagining Realism Led by K-Ming Chang

Saturday, January 22nd | 12 PM ET - 3 PM ET

Tuition | $50.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

Fables and the Fantastic: Reimagining Realism led by K-Ming Chang is a generative workshop that takes inspiration from mythological and speculative elements in storytelling to reimagine what's possible in prose narratives. "Reality" is often rigidly defined by people in power, but this generative class will prompt students to imagine outside of typical categories of "realism" in order to access memory, mythology, history, transformation, and non-Western storytelling structures to write imaginatively and redefine reality in our stories. Participating storytellers will walk away with new beginnings of stories from three different writing exercises.

About the Faculty: K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2021, her chapbook BONE HOUSE was published by Bull City Press. Her short story collection, GODS OF WANT, is forthcoming from One World, as well as a novel titled ORGAN MEATS.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.