Writing from Life: Poetry as Story
Examine how poetry and short prose can stir epiphany in this generative writing workshop with Writer's Studio instructor Dipika Mukherjee.
About the Event
Join Writer's Studio instructor Dipika Mukherjee for a writing workshop using images and text based on Dialect of Distant Harbors (CavanKerry Press: 2022) to examine how both poetry and short prose can emerge out of life experiences to verge on epiphany for the reader and the writer. Sharing of brief in-class writing will be encouraged, but not mandatory. Because this will be a generative, interactive workshop, the number of participants we can accept is limited. To be considered for this opportunity, please fill out a short application here or by clicking the “Apply” button to the right. Accepted participants will be notified of their status no later than February 13th; the event will be free of charge.
This session is intended for residents from neighborhoods surrounding the University of Chicago’s South Side campus. Dr. Mukherjee is particularly interested in engaging voices that find it difficult to be published in mainstream publications.
Sponsored by the Office of Civic Engagement’s Loom.
Who's Speaking
Dipika Mukherjee
Award-Winning Author and Graham School Instructor
Dipika Mukherjee, PhD, is an award-winning author of fiction and poetry and an instructor in the Writer’s Studio of the University of Chicago’s Graham School. Her book Shambala Junction won the UK Virginia Prize for Fiction and her book Ode to Broken Things was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Her creative work is included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 and appears in World Literature Today, Asia Literary Review, Del Sol Review, and Chicago Quarterly Review, and her essays appear in Newsweek, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hemispheres, Orion, Scroll, The Edge and more.