The American MFA program was established as a "workshop of empire," designed to support the national agenda through the "soft power" of culture.
Now is the the time for a fiction workshop that does the opposite, supporting a culture built not on American exceptionalism, but on a reckoning with the truths of injustice and a focus the equal, just and verdant future we want to create.
Join me in the workshop, and let's get to work.
"Write what should not be forgotten.”
—Isabelle Allende"
About your instructor
An American of Indo-Guyanese descent, Susan DeFreitas is the author of the novel Hot Season, which won a Gold IPPY Award, and the editor of Dispatches from Anarres: Tales in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin. Her work has been featured in the Writer’s Chronicle, Story, Daily Science Fiction, Portland Monthly, and High Desert Journal, among other journals and anthologies. An independent editor and book coach, she specializes in helping writers from historically marginalized backgrounds, and those writing socially engaged fiction, break through into publishing. She divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Portland, Oregon.
Courses
Story Medicine is the flagship course of this online school. More courses will be added soon!
