The Micro Prose Chapbook: The Body
with Darien Hsu Gee
Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Online
Online Open to all levels
Open to all levels 6 Sessions
6 Sessions In this six-week generative workshop, we'll write micro prose (300 words or less) with an eye toward a finished chapbook draft by the end. We’ll use prompts inspired by the body to discover the stories that are waiting to be told. We'll explore how these pieces may be submitted individually or as part of a larger body of work. For writers who are open to seeing where their writing takes them.
Registration dates:
March 13: Scholarship Donation Day (Learn more.)
March 14: Member registration opens
March 21: General registration opens
Darien Hsu Gee
Darien Hsu Gee is the author of five novels published by Penguin Random House that have been translated into eleven languages. In 2022, she served as executive editor for Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World. In 2021, her collection of micro essays, Allegiance, received the Bronze IPPY award (Essays). Her poetry chapbook, Other Small Histories, won the 2019 Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship award, judged by Patricia Smith. In 2015, she received the Hawaiʻi Book Publishers’ Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award of Excellence for her nonfiction book, Writing the Hawaiʻi Memoir. Darien lives with her family on the island of Hawaiʻi.
Websites: dariengee.com and writer-ish.com
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