“Intro to Tatreez” is an introductory workshop that will teach participants the ins and outs of Tatreez, a traditional form of Palestinian embroidery. Before the workshop, participants will be provided with a set of supplies to purchase, and during the workshop they will receive instruction on how to stitch a Tatreez motif. This workshop is meant for beginners – no stitching experience is needed.

In “Narrative Podcast Scripting,” participants will learn to build layered, nuanced audio stories in their podcasts.

In “Who’s This: Writing the Profile Piece,” E. Alex Jung will walk participants through the process of writing two profile pieces—one short, one long—with an hour devoted to each.

In “Beyond the Braided Essay: Reworking our Sources in Creative Nonfiction” participants will learn different ways of incorporating external sources—research, cultural objects, reportage, literary texts—into personal nonfiction.

In “Writing Teosintes,” participants will draw inspiration from teosinte, the wild ancestor of maize, as they collectively work on a script (theater / film / TV) that, in Cazares’s own words, “Meta would immediately flag, cancel, and ban.” The goal will be to create an alternate cultural canon uncensored by Zionism.

This workshop will approach the practice of oral history through a de-colonial, anti-capitalist, and reparative lens.

In this workshop, co-directors Eric Stanley and Chris Vargas will screen their film, Criminal Queers (2020), a DIY queer abolitionist comedy that visualizes a radical trans /queer struggle against the prison industrial complex.

In “Seeing the Stanza,” participants will learn how to write ekphrastic poems, a genre of poetry which uses vivid language to describe or respond to a visual form of art.

In “Redefining Words: Through Poetry,” participants will examine commonly used words (particularly relational words like “wife,” “sister,” etc.) and break them down, interrogating where our ideas of them come from in order to redefine them for ourselves.

In “Esperanto 101,” translator Adam Kuplowsky will offer a brief history of the international auxiliary language known as Esperanto, discussing Esperanto's connections to anti-imperial, anti-fascist, and worker movements in the early 20th century.

In “Colonialism and the Heritage of Genocide,” participants will think through the ongoing genocide in Palestine through the lens of the Armenian genocide (1915-16).

“Miyazaki Mode” is a generative workshop that will use the work of Hayao Miyazaki as a jumping-off point for participants’ own creative practice.

In “Poetry in Work,” participants will focus on the role of poetry in worker movements, thinking together about the connections between labor and language, as well as how poetry can refuse the apolitical in the expression of ideas.

“A People’s History of Okinawa” will focus on the way that ordinary people, in particular, women, refused colonial, capitalist violence through forms that largely go unacknowledged in histories of organized labor.

"Undisciplined" will focus on the history of soldier rebellion in the context of U.S. imperialist wars since 1945. Participants will learn how drafted and enlisted people of the U.S. military and other U.S.-backed armed forces organized themselves and collectively refused participation in the U.S. war machine.

“What is Caste?” will introduce students to a system of violence called caste, which works in tandem with racism, white supremacy, multiple colonialisms.

“Performance/Text” will explore text as performance, performance as text, performing texts, reading performances, and more.

In this workshop, Saint will screen their short film “Persephone,” then discuss their process of writing and shooting the film, as well as its themes of cosmic horror, anti-Blackness, and the apocalypse.

In “Writing the Bodymind” Khairani Barokka will lead participants in a series of creative writing exercises to practice and express attunement with our bodyminds, and possibilities for resistance to colonial capitalism.

In this workshop, participants will read examples of poems that borrow from and acknowledge other poems and generate their own poems on love, conceived broadly.

“Book Reviewing 101” is an introductory workshop that will teach participants the ins and outs of pitching book reviews, requesting galleys, finding outlets, as well as how to situate your writing within the broader literary landscape.