July Online Writing Workshop

Writing Deliciously: Food, Desire, and Memory.

July Writing Workshop with Jane Wong
Sunday, July 14th, @10am PST

How can writing about food open up evocative spaces of comfort, family, ancestral lineage, memory, shared rituals, and desires? How can writing through and about food strengthen our communities and open up our creative craft? Along with celebrating and exploring vibrant food writing by poets such Naomi Shihab Nye and Lucille Clifton, our session will inspire you with sensory writing prompts and opportunities for feedback, connection, and breaking bread/sharing.

Jane Wong is the author of the memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House, 2023). She also wrote two poetry collections: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room, Artist Trust, Hedgebrook, Ucross, Loghaven, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and others. She grew up in a restaurant on the Jersey shore and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.