Writing Workshops

Bending Genre and Experimental Writing with Keisha Bush

$495

8 Sessions

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Once a week Thursdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT March 24 to May 12, 2022

Online via Zoom

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In this class we will approach our writing from the space of multiplicity, openness and curiosity. What is experimental fiction and have we finally matured past the days of forgoing punctuation as the means of experimentation on the page? What does experimentation and innovation on the page look like in the age of Twitter mobs, cancel culture, and social media fatigue mixed with modern civil rights movements and The Great Resignation? Through a combination of select readings, writing prompts, and workshopping we’ll seek to celebrate and find freedom within our writing by harnessing the duplicitous worlds we inhabit and push against the boundaries of the written word. Come prepared to play, explore and push up against your own beliefs of what literature is and can be.

Capacity: 12

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Led by

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    Keisha Bush

    Keisha Bush

    Keisha Bush was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a business degree from Bentley University and an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the New York Times, Literary Hub, the Rumpus, Electric Lit, and Lion’s Roar magazine. She has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, Moulin à Nef in France, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and VONA. Her debut novel, No Heaven for Good Boys, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice.

By Keisha Bush

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    No Heaven for Good Boys

    By Keisha Bush

    Published by Random House

    PURCHASE

    Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mother’s kitchen, harvesting string beans with his father, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever. Ibrahimah is sent to the capital city of Dakar to join his cousin Étienne in studying the Koran under Marabout Ahmed for a year, but instead of the days of learning that Ibrahimah’s parents imagine, the young boys, called Talibé, are forced to beg in the streets in order to line their teacher’s pockets.

    To make it back home, Étienne and Ibrahimah must help each other survive both the dangers posed by their Marabout, and the darker sides of Dakar: threats of black-market organ traders, rival packs of Talibé, and mounting student protest on the streets.

    Drawn from real incidents and transporting readers between rural and urban Senegal, No Heaven for Good Boys is a tale of hope, resilience, and the affirming power of love.

About this series

Writing Workshops

We strive to make our classes the most inviting and rewarding available, offering an intimate environment to study with award-winning, world-class writers. Each class is specially designed by the instructor, so whether you’re a fledgling writer or an MFA graduate polishing your novel, you’ll find a perfect fit here.

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