RESOURCES
Every two months, I curate and lead free virtual writing workshops for Sine Theta Magazine, a print creative arts publication by and for the Sino diaspora.
These are one-hour, generative writing sessions where attendees read and discuss poems, prose, and visual media under a theme. Workshops end with a free-write session, with specialized prompts and an opportunity to connect with peer critique partners afterward. I love these workshops because of the accessible, open conversations I have the privilege of mediating for writers from all over the globe, especially during the age of COVID-19. These workshops are open to everyone, regardless of background.
If you would like to access the Google Slides to run these workshops on your own, please consider becoming a member of the Sine Theta community on Patreon; however, if this remains unfeasible for you, contact me and I'll send you the workshop materials, no questions asked.
These are one-hour, generative writing sessions where attendees read and discuss poems, prose, and visual media under a theme. Workshops end with a free-write session, with specialized prompts and an opportunity to connect with peer critique partners afterward. I love these workshops because of the accessible, open conversations I have the privilege of mediating for writers from all over the globe, especially during the age of COVID-19. These workshops are open to everyone, regardless of background.
If you would like to access the Google Slides to run these workshops on your own, please consider becoming a member of the Sine Theta community on Patreon; however, if this remains unfeasible for you, contact me and I'll send you the workshop materials, no questions asked.
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RINSE, REPEATA workshop on writing ghazals—an Arabic poetry form where a word is repeated at the end of each couplet!
For poets stuck in a rut writing free-verse poems. For those with the same echoing word wound around their throat. RINSE, REPEAT is a craft exercise; a foray into the rules that govern form and the art of dismantling them. A refrain repeated into a thousand meanings, and then nothing at all. No experience with writing ghazals or rigid forms is necessary! This workshop includes written and visual prompts, curated by Stephanie Chang, with a generative focus. We’ll look at ghazal poems by Angel Nafis, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Alycia Pirmohamed. |
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GHOST GARDENSA mixed-genre workshop on spooky stories and the aesthetics of horror.
Autumn hollowing out your sternum. Pumpkin patches, scarecrows playing god in corn mazes. GHOST GARDENS is a call to scream from the lantern’s mouth, to feast among spirits wearing crowns of rot. The forest wrought of petrichor and dark. Saints inlaid upon the overgrowth of ivy. Every face you own disfigured by vultures. All the cider we spilled on the woodsman’s axe. This workshop includes written and visual prompts, curated by Stephanie Chang. We’ll look at works that evoke autumnal chills by Jane Wong, Takato Yamamoto, and an excerpt from Over the Garden Wall. |
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THE SUN, SHE SMILESA poetry workshop on the theme of joy.
Flower fields, honeysuckle, gardenia in the softest stare. THE SUN, SHE SMILES is a welcome home. To fireworks and parades. To resilience blooming on your throat. Joy as one afternoon sky worth singing for. Do we call a group of fireflies a lantern? Daisy chains glowing in the dark. No distance between my heart and yours. And the hills—feral with laughter. This workshop consists of written and audio prompts, curated by Stephanie Chang. We’ll study works by Chen Chen, Talin Tahajian, Christina Im, and Mitski that bask in all the cosmic and fevered and wonderful forms of joy. |
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EVENING
Our first ever writing workshop featuring generative prompts based on our Issue #20 theme, EVENING!
朝秦暮楚。。。 to trick and to fool; to be of two minds; one of porous allegiances. EVENING as the cruelest colors at the end of the world; at the seams of a story. People, empires, institutions, relishing in their dying light. Timelines and parallel universes that blur and overlap in a frenzy. Creatures that arrive/depart before nightfall, creeping, half-haunted. The workshop consists of visual and written prompts, curated by Stephanie Chang. We’ll look at the mesmerizing and speculative works of Sally Wen Mao, Lin Zhipeng, Holly Warburton, and more! |
