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Free Write with Mathangi Subramanian
Writing Sizzling Sentences
How do the lengths and structures of our sentences influence the way our writing works? In this workshop, we'll use the work of Sandra Cisneros and exercises developed by Ursula LeGuinn to learn how to make our sentences work for us. We'll also discuss sentence-based revision strategies developed by Felicia Rose Chavez that we can use while revisiting our work. Appropriate for all levels of writing.
Mathangi Subramanian, Ed.D. is a South Asian novelist, essayist, and educator. Her middle grades book Dear Mrs. Naidu won the South Asia Book Award and was shortlisted for the Hindu Goodbooks prize. Her novel A People's History of Heaven was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, among other honors. Her work has appeared in Harper's Bazaar, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Washington Post, and Kweli Journal, and has been anthologized in books like Denver Noir, The Best Women's Travel Writing Vol 12, and Click! When We Knew We Were Feminists. She earned her doctorate in education at Columbia Teachers College, and has been teaching for over 20 years.