Award-winning author, Alex Temblador, is teaching Writing An Identity Not Your Own with Gemini Ink:
When: Tuesday(s), May 6 & 13, 2025, 6:30-8:30pm CST, via Zoom
Cost: Nonmember $135; Member $115; Student $80 (two scholarships are available!)
Do you want to craft diverse and dynamic characters with respect and care for their unique identities? What honest questions must you ask yourself when creating characters different from you? Let’s explore character creation in a thoughtful way!
In this two-session workshop, Mixed Latine award-winning author Alex Temblador of Writing An Identity Not Your Own will discuss one of the most contentious topics in creative writing: crafting a character whose identity is not your own. We will examine bias and how it might influence the text through stereotypes, harmful storyline tropes, character descriptions, dialogue, and more.
The class will also cover the history and state of diversity and representation in publishing. Then, we will discuss how a writer might approach writing main, secondary, and tertiary characters who have historically marginalized identities, including race and ethnicity, sexual and romantic orientation, gender identity, disability, nationality, etc.
This course is open to writers of all genres, backgrounds, and skill levels, 18+.
Students will leave this workshop with:
Awareness of how a writer’s own bias can appear in their creative writing
A list of considerations before you write, as you write, and in the editing process of character development
An introduction to using an intersectional identity approach to crafting characters
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