Come join me StoryStudio Chicago in one week for my only 6 week Writing with Conscience class this spring!

Writing with Conscience with Kavita Das starts ONE WEEK from today (4/17). In this unique online, six-session class, you'll learn how to write compellingly but responsibly about social issues.

Register now!

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In journalism, objectivity is considered essential, but whose objectivity? In creative writing, we seek the truth but whose truth? I'm offering this nonfiction seminar for the first time TheShipmanAgency shipmanagency.bsky.social on 4/25. theshipmanagency.com/classes/object…

My only 6 week Writing with Conscience workshop this spring kicks off on 4/17 StoryStudio Chicago. And it’s virtual, so you can join from anywhere. Hope to see you and please help spread the word! storystudiochicago.org/classes/classe…

It’s Spring and I can’t wait to kick off my 6 week Writing with Conscience workshop StoryStudio Chicago, where I took my first writing class 20 years ago. It kicks off on April 17th and this will be my only multi week workshop class this spring. storystudiochicago.org/classes/classe…

“History happens every day, even when it’s overlooked. Especially, when it’s overlooked.”

- Abbott Elementary

I'll be teaching a one-day online class on Considering Context and Narrative When Writing About Social Issues The Center for Fiction on Saturday April 20th so join me from wherever you are! #SpringRenewal centerforfiction.org/group-workshop…

I'm only teaching one session of my 6-week Writing with Conscience workshop class this spring and it will be online StoryStudio Chicago starting 4/17. It's a full circle moment since I took my first writing class at StoryStudio 20 years ago! Come join! storystudiochicago.org/classes/classe…

If you need any further proof that #ValentinesDay has been taken over by capitalism, I received a Valentine’s Day greeting from my bank. 😱😂

The 2024 Emerging Voices Fellowship Application cycle is open until January 31. Apply and share! pen.org/emerging-voice…

I responded to George Packer’s The Atlantic piece. Writing with conscience is a moral imperative not a misstep. twitter.com/beaconpressbks…

Have been noticing a disturbing pattern @msnbc - cancel Touré, Melissa Harris-Perry, and now Mehdi Hasan. I worry for Nope.. You are not liberal media, you are white liberal media.

I always look forward to Vesna Jaksic Lowe’s Immigrant Strong newsletter. Thrilled to see my work featured in it alongside amazing voices. ♥️

Asked if winning a Nobel Peace Prize or becoming President was the most exciting thing that happened to him Jimmy Carter responds, “when Rosalynn said she’d marry me — I think that was the most exciting thing.”

Countless national & global news outlets have reached out to me for comment. This is my response:

We demanded accountability and it is saddening that the best the White House could come up with is, “Everyone has their opinion, we respect folks’ opinion, and that is her opinion.”

Last December I was a Writer in Residence for Antioch MFA Program I had the opportunity to have an in-depth, convo on writing about social issues with Diana Hardy for the LitCit podcast. Hope you’ll give it a listen! antiochlitcit.libsyn.com/antioch-litcit…

The feeling when one week you’re told your work is “too quiet,” and the next week it’s the most read essay for the month on Electric Literature! Thanks to editor extraordinaire Denne Michele Norris (she/her) , Electric Literature, and everyone who read the piece and showed that quiet can be be quite loud!

My last 6 week Writing with Conscience workshop for 2023 kicks off on Oct 26th through the The Center for Fiction, one of my favorite literary organizations! It's virtual so you can join from anywhere. Registration Link: centerforfiction.org/group-workshop…