Live, Write Workshop for Writers of Color with Joseph Cassara

Free community Fiction WORKSHOP For anyone interested in the literary expression of the lived experiences of communities of color, come join in on this one day discussion and writing in fiction. Participants will produce and share their own creative writing. Led by novelist Joseph Cassara. No Perquisites. Any Experience Level Welcomed Joseph Cassara is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel The House of Impossible Beauties (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018), which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, He holds a BA in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia University and an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is currently an assistant professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Fresno State. Live, Write is an organization committed to promoting launching biannual readings for writers of color to read their polished work before a live audience. Live, Write was envisioned as a place of comfort, integration and courage due to both the scant presence of WOCs in literary communities specifically across the university classroom spectrum, and the sometimes discouraging experiences expressed by WOCs.