On September 12th we’re excited to have Sarah Fawn Montgomery leading a webinar/workshop for SmokeLong Fitness. Even if you’re not participating in SmokeLong’s year-round community workshop. You can still attend. If you’re a workshop leader or a teacher of creative writing, you can request a free ticket. Simply send us an email: editor@smokelong.com
The writing workshop is a space where power and privilege often demand disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers translate our lived experiences for abled audiences in order to be valued. Embodying ableist expectations is an act of erasure that injures disabled spirits and silences disabled stories. But turning to disabled bodies and minds can be a source of great inspiration and innovation. In this interactive seminar for writers of all genres, we will explore strategies to help writers discover disabled forms and structures for creative work. We will intersperse lecture and discussion with short, low-stakes writing exercises to consider various disabled forms and structures you might employ in your work, encouraging you to reflect on how and why this approach to writing might tend to both your body and body of work.
Date: September 12th
Time: 10am NYC
Duration: 90 minutes
Book in the SmokeLong Shop HERE.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, which The Atlantic says, “Exemplifies a nuanced approach to life with mental illness” and The Paris Review describes as “The wakeup call that we need.” She is also the author of the essay collection Halfway from Home, winner of a Nautilus Book Award for lyric prose, the craft text Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice, the flash collection Abbreviate, and three poetry chapbooks. Fathom is forthcoming with the Propel Disability Poetry Book Series. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Nerve to Write, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, and is an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University.
Register for this webinar/workshop HERE.
In September 2022 SmokeLong launched a workshop environment/community christened SmokeLong Fitness. This acclaimed community workshop is happening right now on our dedicated workshop site. If you choose to join us, you will work in a small group of around 15-20 participants to give and receive feedback on flash narratives.