Magic & Memory
Come write with me!
MAGIC & MEMORY:
AN EXPLORATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL FANTASY
Wednesdays 6:30 – 8:30pm
April 15 – May 6
Writer-in-residence Zetta Elliott will offer a free, four-week writing class at Weeksville Heritage Center. Designed for beginners, this class will offer an introduction to historic Weeksville and an opportunity to write creatively about the 19th-century Brooklyn community.
Participants will be required to keep a writing journal, and will be asked to read texts that combine history and fantasy (including Zetta Elliott’s time-travel novel A Wish After Midnight, which will be provided). Does fantasy fiction offer an escape from reality or can it help us to envision a more just world? Together we will consider whether magic helps African Americans to remember, reconstruct, and/or recover from the past.
Zetta Elliott is an award-winning author of thirteen books for young readers. Her novel-in-progress, Judah’s Tale, is set in historic Weeksville. She earned her PhD in American Studies from NYU and has taught at the college level for ten years. Learn more at www.zettaelliott.com.
To register for this FREE class, email writer@weeksvillesociety.org
Enrollment is limited to 20 participants.
The position of Writer-in-Residence was established with a grant from the Malka Foundation.
