“Deep Mapping” workshop with Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Presented by:

Jackson Hole Writers presents
Kali Fajardo-Anstine

“Deep Mapping” Workshop

March 7, 2018

$25 Registration fee

Jackson Hole Writers brings Colorado fiction writer Kali Fajardo-Anstine to our community in March as part of a collaboration with Teton County Library and Teton Literacy Center. The programs are made possible by a ThinkWY grant from the Wyoming Humanities Council and from an Arts for All grant administered by the Center of Wonder.

In October 2017 Kali signed a two-book contract with Random House’s new imprint One World. Watch for Woman of Light and Sabrina and Corina. This contract signals her emergence as a writer of note, a writer to watch. She graduated from the University of Wyoming with an MFA in creative writing in 2013. Alyson Hagy, novelist and UW faculty member, gave her high marks and recommended her as a workshop leader. Her short stories have been published in numerous journals and she has taught at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, San Diego State University, and at Fort Lewis College in Colorado. She has held prestigious residencies, including one last summer at Yaddo and one in 2011 at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, Washington.

You can read an interview with Kali or check out a piece she wrote for La Bloga.

Kali’s two-day visit begins with a writing workshop, “Deep Mapping,” from 6-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7, in the conference room at the Center for the Arts. Participants will read a short story by Latina author Sandra Cisneros (copies provided in advance so preregistration by March 1 highly recommended) and then discuss the themes and their impacts on communities and individuals. The discussion will move into generative writing based loosely on William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highways as a model for “deep mapping” of a story, whether fictional or not, whether eventually morphed into a poem. This workshop is geared toward high school age students and adults writing in English. Prepaid, online registration is $25. (If you send a check to JHW, PO Box 1974, Jackson, WY 83001, it must be received by us by March 1.) The workshop is limited to 12 people. Register Here.

Teton County Library and JHW will host a reading and informal soup & bread meal on Thursday, Mar. 8, from 12-1, in the Ordway Auditorium. This is free and will include some discussion of the reading. If you are planning to attend, please contact us so we have a guesstimate on attendance.

Teton Literacy Center is facilitating a storytelling event for high school age students who participate in their mentoring programing and the students’ parents on Thursday, March 8. This event is not open to the public and the Literacy Center will be having advance gatherings for those who will attend the after-work program. JHW is proud to be instrumental in bringing Kali to Jackson to meet with young Latina/Latino students, most of whom will be the first in their families to graduate from high school and to be applying for college. The Literacy Center is all about writing and reading.