Upcoming Events: Where You Can Find Us
Here’s a look at our upcoming online events, plus third-party event where you can find our authors and editors! [You may also view past events by using the month view and scrolling back.]
Deep Dive: Can’t Draw? Let’s Make Comics! (Sunday, Option 1)
New this year, we’re holding two intensive/generative 90-minute workshops each day; these are NOT included in the main ticket package and require separate registration.
Are you a writer who needs to get unstuck?
Are you comics-curious?
Love graphic memoirs but no idea how to start?
In this workshop, no drawing skills are needed – come as you are. We’ll dive into how to start making comics, gently explore areas of resistance, and build our capacity for vulnerability. Together, we’ll discuss what graphic memoir is and practice making some work together. You’ll leave with:
- a how-to toolbox about the language and construction of comics
- prompts to help you tenderly approach moments of resistance in your creative practice
- strategies for starting a regular comics practice
Come join me! Let’s draw together!
This session is limited to 20 attendees for optimal engagement with instructor and each other. Note: Deep Dives are using the Zoom meeting format where all attendees will be on screen.
About the speaker: Cara Gormally (they/them) is a cartoonist, researcher, and professor. Cara’s narrative nonfiction comics remix autobiographical stories with research to make science relatable. Their comics have appeared in the Washington Post, Mutha Magazine, and other places. Their debut graphic memoir, Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder, is a story about an unexpected healing journey to come home to themself, was published in April from Street Noise Books. A D.C. metro area resident, Cara is an avid morning person, loves nerdy research deep dives, and has more questions than answers.
