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BLESS THIS MESS
a & writing workshop with Chiwan Choi

$300.00

5 Wednesdays 6:30–9:30pm (ET)
1/29–2/26
Zoom

Last day to register: 1/26/25

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If we choose each word, each scene, each memory and detail that we write, what do we choose to leave out? What are we leaving behind? In Bless This Mess, we will take an anti-good approach to writing so that we can explore all the things we carry that live outside what a good poem should be and should be about. We will explore the behind-the-scenes, the deep cuts, the secret diaries, the 20 tracks we left out of our original album because our stupid manager didn’t think they were good enough until we released (Our Version). By approaching our own work without judgement, we will find a secret garden of experiences and memories that are uniquely us. Let’s make 2025 our messiest and most beautiful year of writing.

FIX IT & SUBMIT IT!
a editing workshop with Kate Maruyama

$100.00

2 Thursdays 6-8pm (PST)
1/30 & 2/6
Zoom

(Fee includes a set of notes on one essay or short story.)

Last day to register: 1/26

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Have a short story or essay this close to sending out? Or one that’s been sitting on your desktop you can’t quite finish? In this two-week online class, Kate Maruyama will walk you through revision techniques, from looking at the larger structure of your piece and shaping it into the best version of itself, to getting down to the nitty gritty within your sentences. By the end of class your work will be ready to submit to publishers. We will also talk about possible markets for your short story or essay.

POEM AS GHOST MAP
a workshop with Rocío Carlos

$225.00

4 Thursdays 7–9pm (PT)
1/30–2/20
Zoom

Last day to register: 1/26/25

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Have you ever tried to write about an experience and found that the details and order escape you? These gaps can be paralyzing, but let us be liberated by them instead. Let us ask: How can we think of poetry in a way that allows for the fragmentation of memory, or history or even truth? What could happen if we try to chart that place that isn’t a place at all? What language do we reach for in the dark of forgetting? We will undertake poetry as cartography, as a map of experiences, histories, dreams, visions, the grainy black and white memories that maybe were real and maybe were dreamed. Here we might find Lyric and Narrative that resists easy chronology or completeness.

for consider donating to . our fundraising campaign begins with a goal of $50k to fund our upcoming projects—books, events, new media production & our bookstore renovations.

We are proud to announce the kick-off to our fundraising campaign to benefit the opening of Writ Large Literary Laboratory, our bookstore and community arts space in Braddock, PA.

Our first event is one of the biggest Writ Large has ever produced: WRIT LARGE, BID LARGER, a silent art auction to be held on SUNDAY JULY 28, 2024 in DTLA at REN Gallery.

Works have been donated by some of our very favorite artists: RISK, Kofie, Annabel Daou, Sarah Louise Wilson, Chelle Barbour, Megan Geckler, Ana Chaidez, Nathan Ota, Melora Walters, MariNaomi, J.T. Steiny, Brandon Hunter Harrison, Sergio Teran, Alvaro Marquez, Michael Hernandez, Teresa Flores, Dwight Johnson, Alan Nakagawa, Boris Bernard, Pavel Acevedo, Shizu Saldamando, Gaknew Roxwell, Aise Born, Peter Hess, Emmeric Konrad, Jose Lozano, Nancy Buchanan, Desi Graham & more.

Autographed books from Pulitzer Prize winners Viet Thanh Nguyen & Brandon Som.

Readings by Lynne Thompson, Joseph Rios, Rocío Carlos, Luivette Resto, Taz Ahmed, Traci Kato-Kiriyama, Bridgette Bianca, Natashia Deon, Lee Boek, Mike Sonksen, Phillip Martin, Cory Besskepp Cofer, Ashaki M. Jackson, Chiwan Choi, Ernest Hardy, Melora Walters.

Beat Sets/Dj Sets & Performances By: ABF, Inoe Oner, Kg Supa Star, Jeremy Sole, Guillermo "Memo" Tejeda featuring Annie Gonzales & Rhys Langston

For those who cannot make it in person, there will be a livestream & you'll be able to bid online through Givebutter.

WRIT LARGE, BID LARGER
Sunday 7/28/24
VIP Reception: 2–3:30PM; General: 3:30–8PM
@ REN GALLERY
743 Santee St Unit B, Los Angeles, CA 90014

Trista Hurley-Waxali with an essay on the (non-traditional) publication of her debut novel, A Smoke Stained Cab, what matters most, and being a Black Tranidadian/Indian/Canadian writer in this country.

On Publishing My Debut Novel, A Smoke Stained Cab - Cultural Daily Author Trista Hurley-Waxali shares her thoughts on the release of her debut novel, A Smoke Stained Cab, and why she needs the reader to be understood.

I GAVE HER THE CHANCE TO ESCAPE INTO THE UNFINISHED BASEMENT WITH A GUILLOTINE.

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A Smoke Stained Cab is the long anticipated debut story collection from Trista Hurley-Waxali. A book infused with magical realism, near future speculation and oddities both familiar and frightening, the book confronts difficult relationships and conversations in a time when dialogue and discourse sound like corporate mantras.

Today is when we focus on being heard.

✔️Order now and receive a story per week for 8 weeks in your inbox starting 5/20/24.

https://www.writlargeprojects.com/shop/p/a-smoke-stained-cab