Saturdays, February 25 and March 4 | 4 PM ET – 6 PM ET (1 PM PST – 3 PM PST)
Online | 2 Sessions | Sliding Scale $100- $200
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**This workshop is exclusively for BIPOC (Black and Indigenous, and People of Color) writers. If you are not BIPOC, we ask that you do not register.**

**LIMITED SCHOLARSHIP SEATS ARE AVAILABLE! APPLY HERE! Scholarship recipients will be chosen by lottery on February 20.**

How can we honor our erased histories and ghosts? How do we still speak to them? How can images–our own personal photographs/videos, researched historical documents/images–be a gateway to contact? How do we honor what we don’t know, what we might not ever know? How do we imagine a better world? 

During this workshop, we’ll explore together the catharsis of collage — literal collage of images (for example, Michelle has been engaging with stereographs from the Philippine American War and US imagery of the Philippines while the US was “debating” whether or not to colonize the Philippines) as well as the collage of the genres and forms of ekphrasis, epistles, and elegies. 

We will consider how our own stories’ understory, that is the forest layer that receives the least amount of light, can be a rich site of reproduction, decomposition, and resurrection, through our engagement with fragments, imaginings, scryings, and communications.  Students should expect to create  literal collages (that is, please come with any images you can cut and collage, paper, scissors/X-acto knives, glue sticks) as well as new works of writing.

Tuition for this workshop is sliding scale $100- $200. If payment does not meet the sliding scale, you will be refunded and asked to re-register.

A Zoom link will be sent to registrants the day of the workshop.

//NOTE ON ACCESSIBILITY//
Automated captions are provided. ASL interpretation is available if requested at least a week in advance. For questions and access needs, please contact tle@aaww.org.

Michelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books, 2019). She is also the author of two chapbooks, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias, 2015), and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (Organic Weapon Arts, 2015). The recipient of fellowships and awards from the University of Oregon and Kundiman, Michelle has also received support from Lemon Tree House, Caldera, 4Culture, Literary Arts, VONA/Voices, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among others. The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit, MI and raised in Nashville, TN. She now lives in rural Northern California.