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This writing workshop is an opportunity for aspiring and seasoned writers alike to write into the future using knowledge of the here and now. As our world moves through myriad disasters, social and political turmoil, and constant precarity, we will entertain speculative fiction as a possible tool for identifying the values and skills we will need to cultivate to survive many world endings.

Participants of this workshop will come away with a strong story idea and the opening passage of a short story or novel. Attendance is free, but registration is required.

About Muriel Leung

Muriel Leung is the author of the novel How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnamable Disaster (W.W. Norton & Company) and several poetry collections that include Imagine Us, The Swarm (Nightboat Books), Bone Confetti (Noemi Press), and Images Seen to Images Felt (Antenna) in collaboration with artist Kristine Thompson. Her work has been featured in PBS Newshour, NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, among others. She is on the Board of Directors for Apogee Journal. She was the Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World Fellow at the Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature program at the University of Southern California. Currently, she is based in Los Angeles where she teaches at the MFA in Creative Writing program at California Institute of the Arts.