World Building For Revolutionary Dreams | 90 - 120 minutes 

Are you tired of the current realities of our world with its limitations and bigotries? Do you have solutions to pressing societal issues? How do you imagine a world you would like to see? Now, how do you write it down and build a compelling future. 

Let’s explore world building together. We will learn how to build a world where your characters can play in. At the same time, we will make sure the elements of the world you write pushes your characters to learn and grow. We will also dive into craft skills in world building to help you manifest these ideas. In this workshop we will learn how to create rules while bending reality in speculative/dream spaces. We will make a richer environment for your story/characters that can be employed in realistic or earthbound fiction and the dimensions of fantasy and science fiction.

A keystone idea concept in this workshop will be visionary fiction. I will be referencing the works of Octavia E. Butler, N.K. Jemisin, Tomi Adeyemi, Nnedi Okafor, Nicky Drayden, adrienne maree brown, Hayao Miyazaki, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bao Phi, Ryka Aoki, along with other writers of visionary fiction.

Decolonizing Your Creative Writing Practice  | 60-minutes

There is a way to move your writing towards a decolonial practice but first you have to remove judgment from yourself. Writing is a really intimate process. So, as our words form, they also receive the same scrutiny from the empire we all grow up in. How do we abandon colonial limitations, and form new writing habits and styles? How do we push the limits of what we have previously been allowed in traditional written formats? How do we expand our thinking of writing, so we have the power to reshape our narratives? 

We will be using different writing forms and narrative shapes to unbound us from the limits of linear writing. Our grounding texts will be The Artist's Way, Craft in the Real World, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop, and Meander Spiral Explode.

Inspired by Everything Everywhere All At Once?  | 60-minutes

Everything Everywhere All At Once is the Asian American masterpiece of our time. It made us laugh, it made us cry, and it made us want to hug our immigrant parents. 

How many things can you connect that are seemingly unrelated? How can one object be the solution to a seemingly completely different problem? How can you rewrite the items that people have tokenized you for? 

In this workshop, we will use Asian American items to decolonize our writing practice. We will be working with your most favorite things, items considered “authentically asian” or “immigrant items,” things you’re afraid of, and use them all to write the world and remake it into our own dreams.