To Be Free Creative Writing Workshop
Evelyn C. White is the author of the acclaimed biography Alice Walker: A Life (W.W. Norton, 2004). She is also the author of Chain Chain Change: For Black Women in Abusive Relationships (Seal Press, 1994), editor of The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking For Ourselves (Seal Press, 1994), and a co-author of the photography book The African Americans (Viking, 1993).
Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Smithsonian, Essence, and Ms. magazines.
Ms. White is a 1985 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was honored for her Master's thesis on "The Racial Development of Blind Black Children." She earned a 1991 Master's degree in public administration from Harvard University and is a 1976 graduate of Wellesley College.
A landed immigrant in Canada, Ms. White lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
To Be Free Creative Writing Workshop
This workshop is designed to help writers of all levels negotiate taboos that arise in the crafting of essays, articles, memoirs, novels, short stories, poetry, plays and biographies.
Students will be encouraged to examine restraints on voice and subject matter. Workshop materials will include readings by and discussions about writers who've challenged "appropriate" literary conventions.
In-class writing assignments will explore the artistic vision of all participants.
For enquiries please contact us at Eressos Women's Festival 2007
