The Bay Area's Hub for Asian Pacific American Community Arts Since 1972
Gods and Demons
Writing From Your Own Pantheon with Bryan Thao Worra
April 11th - May 9th | Mondays, 7-9pm
Arc Gallery & Studios
1246 Folsom St. (btw 8th and 9th) SF (Near Civic Center BART)
Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy have rarely been explored among Asian Pacific American writers. How can we interrogate our own diaspora through these genres and develop narratives that are true and authentic to our experiences? What new possibilities could it bring us? Award winning poet and fiction writer, Bryan Thao Worra, entered the world of horror writing and immediately took home the Elgin Award in 2014 for his collection of horror poetry, Demonstra. This spring he's set to lead this four week course that will deconstruct the genre and help bring APA writers into a new realm of literature.
*we will take up to 13 students, first come first serve. In order to ensure your spot, we request that tuition payments be received within a week of registering. Please contact jason@kearnystreet.org if you have any questions
General Tuitio: $150
Class Schedule:
Workshop #1 (April 11th)
Workshop #2 (April 18th)
no class on April 25th
Workshop #3 (May 2nd)
Workshop #4 (May 9th)
INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Bryan Thao Worra is author of DEMONSTRA (2013); BARROW (2009); Winter Ink (2008); On the Other Side of the Eye (2007) and The Tuk-Tuk Diaries: Our Dinner with Cluster Bombs (2003). His work appears in over 100 international publications, including Astropoetica, Cha, Asian Pacific American Journal, Hyphen, Lantern Review, Kartika Review, Journal of the Asian American Renaissance, Expanded Horizons, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Strange Horizons, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Innsmouth Free Press.
He was selected as a Cultural Olympian during the 2012 London Summer Olympics' Poetry Parnassus convened by the Southbank Centre. His work is part of the Smithsonian traveling exhibit I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story. He is the first Lao American to be accepted as a professional member of the Horror Writer Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. His accolades include a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts and an Asian Pacific American Leadership Award in the Arts from the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. He works on Lao and Southeast Asian American refugee resettlement issues across the United States.