24PearlStreet Workshops and Events
LIVE via ZOOM: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time)
How do weather and the seasons interact with our bodies? What do they tell us about time, our connection to the planet, and to each other? How can we as writers explore weather and the seasons, going beyond their use as a passive setting, and instead reflect them as an ever-present part of our experiences with a profound impact on our lives?
Join us for a week of immersion in writing with a focus on weather and the seasons. Inspired by the emergent spring, our sensory memory, and great work by other writers, artists, and composers, we will experiment and do our own writing together. We will explore writing about the weather as an exercise of careful observation of a particular moment and engaging our full senses in our writing, as well as scope out to explore the repeating patterns and cyclic nature of the seasons.
Writers interested in general exploration, as well as those with a particular project in mind, are welcome.
Biography
Ananda Lima is the author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize, and Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (forthcoming with Tor), described as “truly wondrous” (Kevin Wilson), and “an absolutely thrilling reminder that short stories can be the best kind of magic” (Kelly Link). Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press), as well as The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Witness, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, and served as as a mentor at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Program. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA from Rutgers University, Newark.
Ananda Lima is also a photographer. Her photographs have appeared in The Huffington Post, The Chicago Reader, Mingle Magazine, Boro Magazine, Brooklyn the Borough, The Queens Chronicle, and elsewhere. They have been exhibited at the Eye Level Gallery, A Number of Names, Gallery 103, the Brooklyn Artillery at Castle Braid Art Fest, the LIC Arts Open, and other venues. Her photographs feature alongside her poetry in her digital hybrid chapbook Vigil (Get Fresh Press).
