*This workshop is sold out. If you'd like us to add a second session, email team@thinkolio.org Thank you!* A provocative manifesto for writing about oneself, one's experience, one's history: Stand up to your inner authoritarian. Realism is unreliable. Memory is a convincing dreamstate. Alternative facts are not always malignant. Embrace uncertainty: uncover new truths by mixing modes, forms, and genres. This writing workshop explores hybrid forms of writing about the self. We ask you to fill in the blanks with fiction; to capsize your reportage in a poem; to tell stories about yourself and your people in the truest way possible: by blurring boundaries. *If cost of this seminar is prohibitive, please email us at team@thinkolio.org and we will try our best to accommodate*

In this creative writing workshop, we’ll scavenge, recycle, rebuild, and renovate. We’ll experiment with hermit crab essays/stories, as well as erasure and found poetry. All you need is word processing software (google docs is fine), an internet browser, and a playful mindset.

In this two-hour, creative writing workshop, we will look to the incisive, imaginative, and transformative hybrid writing of Claudia Rankine, Sheila O’Connor, Gloria Anzaldua, Maggie Nelson, and Audre Lorde.

In this two-part creative writing workshop, we will look to the incisive, imaginative, and transformative hybrid writing of Claudia Rankine, Sheila O’Connor, Gloria Anzaldua, Maggie Nelson, and Audre Lorde.

This writing workshop will explore hybrid forms of writing about the self. This is a creative nonfiction writing workshop that asks you to fill in the blanks with fiction. This week's reading is Joan Didion's essay, "The White Album."