I’m Tired of Talking About Place as Character with Mariah Rigg

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I’m Tired of Talking About Place as Character with Mariah Rigg
Sunday, September 27
10 AM – 1 PM PT / 1 PM – 4 PM ET
Online

How might our practice grow if, instead of writing “about” place, we right “to” place in our prose? In this generative craft class, we will read, discuss, and write place as a living, breathing, active entity, not lived in or on, but with. Centering an Indigenous, Pasifika understanding of relational place making, we’ll talk story on craft essays from Teresia Teaiwa, Craig Santos Perez, and Epeli Hau’ofa to reach beyond the framework of place as character. Together, we will turn from the static cartographies of place mapped onto us by settler colonial expectations of craft to think and write toward a relational understanding of place.

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We have one scholarship available for this intensive. Scholarships are awarded via a random lottery drawn at least a week before the intensive. Please submit your name here to enter.

BIO: Mariah Rigg is a Samoan-Haole who was born and raised on the island of O‘ahu. She is the author of the hybrid chapbook All Hat, No Cattle, and the short story collection, Extinction Capital of the World, winner of the Asian Pacific American Award in Literature, the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award from Publishing Triangle, among others others. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere, and has been featured in The Sewanee Review, Oxford American, Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, and more. Currently, Mariah teaches creative writing as a postdoctoral fellow in Kwinitekw Valley at Mount Holyoke College.