Fall Craft Intensive: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Workshops
$75.00
Description
Editor's Note
Writing at Low Tide: Becoming Unblocked with Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Saturday, November 15
9 AM – 12 PM PST/ 12 PM – 3 PM EST
Online
There’s nothing like finding oneself in a productive flow, where consistent ideas stream in like lapping ocean waves and the work just works. But what to do when the water runs dry and “writers’ block” sets in?
In this generative, interactive craft intensive, we explore ways to develop and maintain a consistent writing practice that can overcome adversity, as well as practical tips for becoming and staying “unstuck.” Assigned texts include short work by Robert Boswell and George Saunders.
Scholarship
The scholarship for this intensive has already been awarded.
BIO: Nafissa Thompson-Spires is the author of the award-winning, National Book Award longlisted short story collection, Heads of the Colored People.
She earned a doctorate in English from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, New York Magazine’s “The Cut,” The Root, The White Review, Ploughshares, 400 Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019, and The 1619 Project, among other publications.
In addition to a debut novel with Scribner, The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Rich Milford, her young adult debut is forthcoming with Make Me a World (Penguin Random House). She is the recipient of a 2024 United States Artists Grant and a 2019 Whiting Award.