Free Online Writing Workshop

In this class, we go wild and explore artistic practices across disciplines as a way of generating new writing.

Take an Afro Beat dance class, listen to punk, incorporate collage practices in a digital medium … and use all of these experiences to inspire your work (and learn how to infuse your page writing with digital resources). All of these practices and more support an embodied exploration of creativity.

We work together to identify the daily joys in our creative practice of wonder and discovery. Together we learn strategies to push beyond our limits and the limits of our knowledge or the form of our work to something decidedly new, exciting, and welcome in its shock and glory.

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Raina J. León, PhD is a Black and Afro-Boricua Philadelphian (living for many years in the Chochenyo Ohlone territory of Berkeley). She is a mother, daughter, sister, madrina, comadre, partner, poet, writer, and teacher educator. She believes in collective action and community work, the profound power of holding space for the telling of our stories, and the liberatory practice of humanizing education. She seeks out communities of care and craft and is a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective, Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Macondo, and Círculo de Poetas and Writers She is the author of three collections of poetry, Canticle of Idols, Boogeyman Dawn, and sombra: dis(locate) and the chapbooks, profeta without refuge and Areyto to Atabey: Essays on the Mother(ing) Self.

See website for more details.

Raina is a visiting faculty member in Dominican's low residency MFA in Creative Writing program.

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This workshop will take place on the free online Zoom meeting platform. Please register via Eventbrite. A meeting link will be sent to registrants via email a few days before the workshop begins.

For questions about this workshop, please contact mfa@dominican.edu.