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The International Armenian Literary Alliance, Mizna, and the Asian American Writer’s Workshop present the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Can Storytelling Save Us? This series of six writing workshops will encourage writers to engage with the pressing issues of our time. Workshop facilitators include: Diane Wilson, Peter Balakian, Olivia Katrandjian, Sarah Aziza, Arthur Kayzakian, and Moheb Soliman. Learn more here.

Join us for the launch of the Sarkisian Workshop Series: Imagining Alternative Futures with Olivia Katrandjian. The virtual two-hour workshop will take place on March 29, 2026, at 9:00 AM Pacific | 12:00 PM Eastern | 8:00 PM Armenia Time.

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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
As rising temperatures fuel environmental degradation, natural disasters, weather extremes, food and water insecurity, economic disruption and conflict, it has been argued that all fiction is now climate fiction, because the climate crisis affects every facet of our lives. Moving beyond typical dystopian and post-apocalyptic narratives, how can fiction help us envision a better reality?

In this two-hour virtual workshop, writers of all genres will be invited to imagine different ways of living and interacting with each other and the earth. We will explore how storytelling allows us to seek justice, and dream up creative approaches to combat the climate crisis. Participants will be encouraged to center often neglected perspectives, and consider how decolonial, feminist and environmental struggles are intertwined. We’ll imagine a world we want to live in, and write a more hopeful future, together.