Single Session: Nebula & Nomenclature: An Afrofuturism Writing Workshop

What does liberation look like in 2340? What does your ancestor or elder's wisdom sound like translated into code? In this workshop, we explore Afrofuturism as a living literary tradition that holds ancestral memory and radical imagination. Through guided prompts, world-building exercises, and craft discussion, writers will develop original speculative writing rooted in experience, culture, and cosmology. We'll examine how writers use science fiction and fantasy not as escape, but as a technology for dreaming new worlds into being.

Kindall Gant is a Black femme interdisciplinary poet and New Orleans native based in Brooklyn. She experiments with visual storytelling as liberation bringing poems into conversation with expressive forms like film, visual art, music and photography. They have received support from Cave Canem, the Poetry Foundation, MASS MoCA, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Watering Hole, Studio Museum in Harlem, the Guggenheim, and Ma's House among other arts institutions. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and appears or is forthcoming in Seedlings, TORCH, 1619 Speaks, Brooklyn Poets, The Poetry Society of New York's Milk Press, Obsidian and WSQ published by the Feminist Press. Their book THE HARLEM TABLE is forthcoming from Phaidon. Find them at https://kindallgant.com/

This class is on Zoom and will be recorded. Ticket holders will have access to the recording for 3 months. A Zoom registration link will be sent to the email address used to purchase the ticket.