CALLALOO AND THE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

Offering workshops across the Black Diaspora, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop is held at Brown University in Providence, RI, University of West Indies in Cave Hill, and the University of Oxford in England. It’s a transformative workshop like no other I have witnessed. Today we have Helen Elaine Lee, Vievee Francis, Ravi Howard, and Gregory Pardlo to speak on the workshops as the poetry and fiction workshop leaders. I suggest that each of these speakers will offer insight into their own pedagogy and role as workshop leaders, and testify to the importance of the workshop to the growing mission of Callaloo as a journal, the workshop as a life changing entry point for many new writers at any age into the field of literature, and the outstanding mentorship that often times develops as a result of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop