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Write Your Story
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Are you interested in capturing your family’s story in writing? Join writing workshops this quarter to guide participants in writing personal stories about family relationships, first and second-generation experiences, and immigration. No previous writing experience is necessary. Jessica Yen will lead this workshop.
This program is free and open to the public.
Requests for ASL interpretation may be made via email at jsma@pdx.edu or by phone at (503) 725-6238. To ensure that ASL interpretation can be provided in time for this event, please make your requests two weeks in advance (end of day Thursday, October 5).
Accessibility initiatives have been made possible by a Richard and Helen Phillips Charitable Fund grant.
10/19 workshop led by Jessica Yen, a third-generation Chinese-American whose work explores the intersection of memory, family, culture, language, identity, and history. She is a 2022 Oregon Literary Fellow in Creative Nonfiction, a two-time VONA alum, and a graduate of the Independent Publishing Resource Center’s program in Creative Writing.
11/9 workshop led by Write Around Portland, an agency workshop built around a model of freewriting and accessibility. Space is limited.
Image: Hung Liu (American, born China 1948-2021), Unofficial Portraits: The Maiden, edition, 23/30, 2001, lithograph and collage, 30 x 30 inches, Published by Shark's Ink., Lyons, Colorado, Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer, Image: Strode Photographic, © Hung Liu Estate/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York