Past Activities
Workshop leaders in action
Mohamedou Ould Slahi (the author of Guantánamo Diary) and I offered a creative writing workshop at the international conference "Camps, Writing, and Abolition Democracy," which took place in Graz, Austria from June 4-7th, 2026.
The workshop began with a discussion in which we discussed strategies for dealing with writer's block and ways of integrating play and the unknown into the writing process. By the end of our session, everyone had written a pantoum, many of which were beautiful.
The conference was co-sponsored by the University of Graz at the University of Puerto Rico's Rio Piedras Campus.
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