Wasafiri is excited to announce a series of online writing workshops tutored by our Writer-in-Residence Jennifer Wong, and our Associate Editor Thomas Glave. Jennifer Wong’s series of writing workshops will focus on poetry, human geography and writing across and between languages, while Thomas Glave’s short course will help writers put their experience of the pandemic into words.
Workshops with Jennifer Wong:
20th February 2021, 11am-1pm GMT - Poetry Workshop: Writing across Languages for Chinese Poets
Price: £20 full; £15 concessions; £10 subsidised.
24th February 2021, 7-9pm GMT - Prose-writing Workshop: Human Geography
Price: £20 full; £15 concessions; £10 subsidised.
1st March 2021, 7-9pm GMT - Poetry Workshop: Writing across Languages (
Price: £20 full; £15 concessions; £10 subsidised.
Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong. Jennifer is the author of several collections including Goldfish (Chameleon Press) and a pamphlet, Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (Bitter Melon Poetry 2019). Her latest collection is Letters Home (Nine Arches Press 2020) She has a creative writing PhD from Oxford Brookes University where she teaches as associate lecturer.
Short Course with Thomas Glave: Writing through Covid-19: What is Your Story? How Will You Tell It?
Dates: Wednesdays at 7 pm GMT, 24 March, 31 March, 7 April 2021 , 7 pm GMT
Prices: £50 full; £30 concessions; £20 subsidised.
Thomas Glave is the author of four books, including Whose Song? and Other Stories and The Torturer’s Wife. His most recent book is Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh. He is editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles, and an Associate Editor of Wasafiri.
A limited number of subsidised workshop/course places are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Further details and to book here