Virtual, via Jitsi Exact date and time TBD

Overview

A revamped iteration of the 2025 version of this workshop. As before, we'll cover a broad range of approaches and strategies to incorporating elements from other artistic mediums into your writing.

Content

Availability

This workshop will be held live via Jitsi. An asynchronous version will be available via Itch.io after the live session.

Virtual, via Jitsi Wednesdays, July 8, 15, and 29, and August 5; time TBD

Overview

This workshop is a five-week/four-session version of the Intro to Speculative Memoir workshop held in June 2026.

We'll continue to explore speculative memoir, an emerging genre with its roots in a variety of experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to historical writing. In particular, this workshop will emphasize the genre’s historical roots as a means for engaging with histories that have been erased, destroyed, or otherwise distorted by different forms of power, oppression, and violence.

This more expansive foray into speculative memoir is intended for readers and writers who want to dissect a specific speculative memoir at length, as well as those who want support from other readers and writers with an ongoing creative project in the genre.

Together, we'll:

1. read at least one novel-length work of speculative memoir in full;
2. support each other in making progress on our own speculative memoir projects;
3. implement strategies and prompts for writing speculative memoir ourselves, with opportunities to share our work with fellow workshop participants, if desired.

You can also elect to receive two to three pages of written feedback from me on any piece of speculative memoir writing you're currently working on. Feedback will be reflective and interrogatory rather than prescriptive, moving away from considerations of “craft,” and focusing instead on uncovering as many potential directions for your work as possible.

Content

During each 90-minute workshop, we'll discuss at least one of the following texts in full:

• The Story Game by Shze-Hui Tjoa;
• The Night Parade by Jami Nakamura Lin;
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado;
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde; and
• The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals by Samuel R. Delany.

We'll also consider the ethics of conducting archival work by looking at readings by Saidiya Hartman and her methodology of “critical fabulation,” as developed in Lose Your Mother, “Venus in Two Acts,” , and Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. In the process, we'll consider how we can develop our own sets of personal best practices as we work on projects that can be logistically complicated, emotionally challenging, and creatively risky.

Ahead of each session, I'll send out prompts you can use to generate new drafts of speculative memoir works, or more casual reflections on the texts and ideas we're engaging with. At the end of each session, you'll have time to share this writing, with time for fellow participants to provide their own thoughts and reflections on your work.

Availability

This workshop will be held live on Wednesdays via Jitsi, with a break on the week of July 29 for participants to catch up on the readings and their writing.

An asynchronous version will be available via Itch.io after the five-week session is complete.

Virtual, via Zoom Hosted by fifth wheel press Sunday, June 28, 2026; time TBD

Overview

This workshop will explore speculative memoir, an emerging genre with its roots in a variety of experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to historical writing. It's intended for readers and writers interested in speculative memoir seeking support with navigating its cross-genre aspects, or for those interested in working outside the limits of journalistic memoir or autofiction.

Together, we'll:

1. trace the genre’s historical roots as a means for engaging with histories that have been erased, destroyed, or otherwise distorted by different forms of power, oppression, and violence;
2. read excerpts from recent entries in the genre; and,
3. build a toolbox of strategies and prompts for writing speculative memoir ourselves.

Content

During this 90-minute workshop, we'll examine excerpts from:

• The Story Game by Shze-Hui Tjoa;
• The Night Parade by Jami Nakamura Lin;
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado;
• Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde; and
• The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals by Samuel R. Delany.

We'll also look at the methodology used by Saidiya Hartman in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, itself a product of speculative archival work that Hartman calls “critical fabulation,” as well as a new form of speculative memoir called “autofabulation,” which I develop in my forthcoming book, The Ecology of Art, Strike!.

Finally, we'll work through a series of autofabulation-based prompts that will allow you to walk away from the workshop with initial drafts of flash pieces in the genre.

Availability

This workshop will be held live by fifth wheel press via Zoom. An asynchronous version will be available via Itch.io after the live session.

Virtual, via Zoom Hosted by fifth wheel press on February 15, 2024 Asynchronous version available on a pay-what-you-can basis via Itch.io

Overview

This workshop covered a broad range of approaches and strategies to incorporating elements from other artistic mediums into your writing, across four categories of hybrid works:

1. prose poetry/lyric essays;
2. audio art that combines sounds/music with text/narration;
3. visual works that blend aspects of photography, collage, sculpture, and art installations with text; and,
4. writing that incorporates “non-artistic” disciplines, like history, science, and math.

Content

The 90-minute workshop was broken up into four approximately twenty-minute segments, during which we spent:

• about ten minutes exploring examples of hybrid writing by writers and artists like Starr Davis, Sophie, Gabrielle Civil, Mita Mahato, Ro Daniels, Derek Beaulieu, makalani bandele, June Jordan, and Tongo Eisen-Martin;
• a few minutes exploring an example I created myself, with a brief explanation of my process;
• and then about five to ten minutes with a short, generative prompt, with time for participants to share their drafts in-workshop.

Availability

An asynchronous version of the class is available via Itch.io, and includes the following downloadable items:

1. a 90-minute video recording of the workshop;
2. a PDF written transcript of the video recording; and,
3. a PDF booklet of all the readings presented and referenced in the workshop.

Compensation

The first $200 of sales of the asynchronous version of the workshop available via Itch.io will go to Workshops 4 Gaza, to cover spots in their workshops for participants who can't afford the suggested donation. (As of May 2026, $7 have been raised towards this goal.)

Every dollar after the first $200 of sales will go to Gazans currently being prioritized by Crips for eSims for Gaza.