The Sundress Academy for the Arts is excited to present “REVOLT!: Past as Prologue,” a workshop led by Henry Hicks IV on Wednesday, January 14th from 6:00-7:30 PM EST. This event will be held over Zoom. Participants can access the event at tiny.utk.edu/sundress (password: sundress).
“REVOLT!: Past as Prologue” will be a generative workshop for writers of all levels working in prose. We will engage with texts such as Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, and “Venus In Two Acts” by Saidiya Hartman to examine the role of history and historical memory in bolstering our art as writers and our actions as changemakers.
In REVOLT!, participants will be asked to bring in an example of a historic moment of uprising. Together, we will examine and analyze these histories while being prompted to generate our own pieces of literary, narrative, or speculative prose that engages, builds upon, or inherits this history of rebellion. REVOLT! will urge participants to envision themselves as agents of change locally, nationally, and globally—and to support them in using their writing as a tool for envisioning and enacting resistance work today.
While there is no fee to participate in this workshop, those who are able and appreciative may make donations directly to Henry Hick IV.
Henry Hicks IV (he/him) is an American writer and organizer. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, Mother Jones, Teen Vogue, In These Times, The Drift, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. He is a current graduate student at the University of Oxford. He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College in creative writing and comparative American studies. His writing has been supported by Lambda Literary, Tin House, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Oxford Writers’ House, and The Porch. He can be found online at henryhicksiv.com.
This event is brought to you by a grant provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission.
