In Full Velvet

Sat 20th June 11h-13h Max 15 participants A short-form workshop from award-winning author, Micah Perks! About the workshop: How does one tell impossible true stories? Perhaps through a speculative mode, blending fairy tales or ghost stories or horror stories or time travel with autobiography. In this two hour workshop I’ll talk a little about speculative memoir, we’ll read some excerpts by Carmen Maria Machado, Lidia Yuknavitch, Sofia Samatar and/or Sabrina Orah Mark, and do a writing exercise or two to experiment with this exciting genre. About Micah:  Micah Perks is an award-winning author of five books and many essays and stories. She is a Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her memoir, Pagan Time, is about growing up in a log cabin on a commune in the wilderness. Her novel, The Wood Between the Worlds, coming out in 2027, is a queer literary speculative novel about the elusive promise of utopia, the rewilding of the natural world, and the uneasy pull between community and solitude, stability and freedom, mothers and daughters. Micah is currently working on a book length essay about care and transformation in the lives of three older women who fell in love with a baby loon on a pond in the wilderness. Artwork by Katie Lebel