Liberatory Futures: Freeing the Imagination Through Writing
How can narrative empower us to reimagine systems of injustice and envision an environmentally just future? Explore this question through creative writing with award-winning author, Shannon Gibney.
Date & Time:
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Registration:
Location:
Zoom (link provided 1-2 days after you register)
How can narrative empower us to reimagine systems of injustice and envision an environmentally just future? Join us for a virtual creative writing workshop with award winning author, Shannon Gibney, to explore this question through sci-fi writing.
This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited. **After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link 1-2 days later.** You'll also receive a short, recommended reading in advance of the workshop.
Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), and Dream Country (Dutton, 2018) young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards in 2016 and 2019. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis College, where she teaches writing. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, her new novel, Botched, explores themes of transracial adoption through speculative memoir (Dutton, 2022). In October 2019, University of Minnesota Press released What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color, which she co-edited with writer Kao Kalia Yang.
This event is co-sponsored by Sustainable Communities Partnership Arts and the Department of English at the University of St. Thomas.