2025 Summer Workshop Program
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$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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What is an archive? How do we approach, enter, and draw from it to alchemize fiction? In this generative workshop designed to start/jumpstart a creative project inspired by archives, whether personal (e.g., family archive) or collective (e.g., national archive), we’ll look at photographs, letters, news articles, and other artifacts, as well as relevant excerpts of published fiction, to prompt fresh pages and discuss ways of excavating, interrogating, and activating found traces of the past. Each class will build on the last; we’ll spend the final class excavating and alchemizing your pages. Expect to walk away with tools to spelunk the past, generate manuscript possibilities, and deeply expand your creative potential.
Biography
Asako Serizawa
is the author of Inheritors, which won the PEN Open Book Award and The Story Prize Spotlight Award. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mass Cultural Council, her work has been awarded two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, among others.
