Q.M. Zhang | MemoryWorks is a creative research and writing practice founded in 2020 to address the urgent need, both personally and collectively, to reclaim histories that have been not merely forgotten, but censored, silenced, or erased.
MemoryWorks offers writing workshops, one-on-one mentoring, and community consulting for those whom I call “next generation writers”: children of migrants and refugees, descendants of Indigenous and enslaved people, offspring of settlers and slavers—all who write in order to imagine their proximity to history.
MemoryWorks workshops offer:
- introduction to the creative tools and hybrid forms of memory work
- curated readings and guided writing, drawing on examples of memory work by BIPOC and international writers and artists
- structured and supportive space to experiment and generate new writing in a community of fellow creatives and makers
- yearly workshop for Asian Pacific diasporic writers
As both a social scientist and a creative writer, I developed the tools of memory work over my years of teaching and in the making of my hybrid book, Accomplice To Memory (Kaya Press, 2017), and it is my privilege to share them with others.
MemoryWorks is open to next gen writers of all cultural backgrounds and stages of life, wherever and whenever questions of the past take on urgency for you. If you are working on a family or community history project and running into silences everywhere you turn, check out these offerings.
