Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of The Fluency of Light, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, Borealis, and Captioning the Archives. She is the winner of the CLMP Firecracker Award, the 1913 Open Prose Contest, the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary, the Jean Córdova prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction, the Lambda Literary Awards for Bisexual Nonfiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan.
Workshop
From Archive to Essay
For this craft class and generative workshop, we will each gather a personal archive and present it. We will read excerpts of archive-inspired literature and come up with prompts to “translate” our archives into language. Everyone will give a 15-minute long presentation, which can consist of whatever kind of introduction you’d like to offer to an archive you hope to write about (google slides, curated TikToks, photos of your sister’s closet, stones, news clippings, drawings, family photos, etc.). This class will involve conceptual workshopping, generative in-class writing, and multi-modal play.
