The Antiracist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering artistic communities for a new millennium of writers. Inspired by June Jordan's 1995 Poetry for the People, here is a blueprint for a 21st-century workshop model that protects and platforms writers of color. Instead of earmarking dusty anthologies, imagine workshop participants Skyping with contemporary writers of difference. Instead of tolerating bigoted criticism, imagine workshop participants moderating their own feedback sessions. Instead of yielding to the red-penned judgement of instructors, imagine workshop participants citing their own text in dialogue. The Antiracist Writing Workshop is essential reading for anyone looking to revolutionize the old workshop model into an enlightened, democratic counterculture. "This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innovative reading, writing, workshop, critique, and assessment strategies."--Provided by publisher.

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Introduction : Decolonizing the creative classroom -- Preparing for change -- Fostering engagement, mindfulness and generosity -- Instituting reading and writing rituals -- Completing the canon -- Owning the language of craft -- Teaching writers to workshop -- Conferencing as critique -- Promoting camaraderie and collective power -- Appendix 1. Platforming writers of color : a twenty-first-century reference guide -- Appendix 2. Sample lesson plan.