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Beginning a novel or memoir can be difficult, whether you are building a world from the ground up, or exploring the world that has made up your own life. In this 2 hour class, Randa Jarrar will discuss techniques in drafting a prose book. Come with a list of books that could be siblings to your own, and a paragraph outlining the book you dream of writing.

This workshop takes place virtually on September 19, 2021 at 3pm CT.

***Registration is limited. Course registration will prioritize Black writers, Indigenous writers, and writers of color.***

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>>HOW TO PARTICIPATE<<

Registration is limited to ten participants. A waitlist will be available, maximum ten spots available on the waitlist. If you have registered and are no longer able to attend the workshop, please email mizna@mizna.org so that we can make your spot available to someone on the waitlist. The Zoom link will be sent out the day before and the day of the workshop.

>>ACCESSIBILITY<<

This workshop will take place in English. Free live English captioning and ASL interpretation is available upon request. Please email mizna@mizna.org by September 10, 2021 if you will need captioning of ASL inerpreting to attend the workshop. This workshop will not be recorded.

Registration for this course is free. Please consider making a donation to Mizna so we can continue to program accessible workshops!

>>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<<

Randa Jarrar is the author of the memoir Love Is An Ex-Country, the novel A Map of Home, and the collection of stories Him, Me, Muhammad Ali. She is also a performer who has appeared in independent films and in the TV show RAMY. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Salon, Bitch, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a Creative Capital Award and an American Book Award, as well as awards and fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, Hedgebrook, PEN, and others. She lives in Los Angeles.