Calendar:

Spring 2024

March 27, 2-3:30pm PST. BIPOC Mothering Mini-Writing Retreat. Sign up at info@wild-tongues.com

April 17 note new start date! for 6 weeks, asynchronous (On-Demand) workshop via Grubstreet: Writing Motherhood Sign up here!

April 5-26, 2:30-4pm for 4 Fridays, BIPOC Mothering Writers on the Front Lines: Virtual Writing Group. Sign up at info@wild-tongues.com

*New: attending fewer than 4, even a drop in (with pre-registration 24 hours before) are welcomed! Description follows…

4/5-4/26, 2:30-4pm PST BIPOC MOTHERING WRITERS ON THE FRONT LINES: WRITING GROUP - 4 Fridays.

This low-commitment group will be facilitated with prompts/exercises and focused on shared writing time.

"Mothering, the act of radical care-taking and supporting life, is fundamental to community building and key to creating community resilience….supporting radical mothering work is supporting the creation of not only healthy and vibrant children, but revolutionary communities of love.” - Revolutionary Mothering.

In this spirit of the anthology Revolutionary Mothering and my past workshops and retreats prioritizing BIPOC Mothering people, this group aims to support BIPOC mothering people through a structured space to write, dream, and connect. It's a perfect pairing for one of my other mothering workshops (visit www.aimeesuzara.net/calendar for the full schedule), or stand-alone. It's open-level -- from people who want to get into journalling or express what's happening in the world, to those working on prior projects.

April 12, 2-3:30pm PST. LIWANAG (Light): A Virtual Mini-Writing Retreat for A/PI Writers. Sign up at info@wild-tongues.com *** NOTE TIME CHANGE! Now 12:30-2 PST!!! ***

April 26, 10-1PST/1-4EST. Mothering: A Mini Retreat. Hosted by Grubstreet, Sign up: https://grubstreet.org/seminar/mothering-a-mini-writing-retreat-undefined

May 3-31, 630-8pm PST, 5 Fridays. KALAMANSI KAFE: A Virtual Writing Group for A/PI Writers

May 3-24, 4 Fridays, 10a-12p PST on zoom (virtual/live).. Not Exotic: Poetry From / About Asian American Identity, hosted by Hugo House. Sign up here! This class will focus on poetry by Asian American and Asian writers in the United States. We will engage with poetry and spoken word, considering themes of belonging and otherness, homeland and loss, racism and immigration. Special attention will be given to challenging silence, misrepresentation, the current climate of anti-Asian sentiment, and how we challenge it by telling our own stories. We will write and share feedback. Readings will include Kevin Yang, Ocean Vuong, Barbara Reyes, Michelle Peñaloza, Jason Bayani, Lee Herrick, and more.

May 31, 6-9pm PST on zoom (virtual/live). Halo-Halo Café: A Mini-Writing Retreat for A/PI Writers, hosted by Grubstreet. Sign up here! Do you just want to be in fellowship with other Asian and Asian-American and Pacific Islander writers to write about what is important to you today? Bring your halo-halo, boba, matcha or kalamansi juice and join Halo-Halo Cafe: a virtual space specifically dedicated to Asian and Pacific-Islander-identified writers! This will be an affinity group which allows you the freedom to come as you are and bring whatever projects you're working on, AND a space to receive prompts and expert guidance from Aimee Suzara, to write something new!

May-June (dates & topics TBA) The (First!) Wild Tongues Summer Institute