One-day Workshop (in a timezone near you)

Vancouver: Wed 28 June 2023, 6.30-8.30pm

New York: Wed 28 June 2023, 9.30-11.30pm

Singapore: Thu 29 June 2023, 9.30-11.30am

online

$50 (17 students max)

Enroll for this class.

Horror movie monsters often articulate the cultural anxieties of their time. They have the power to reflect, reinforce, and sometimes, resist prevailing notions of gender, morality, justice and beauty. Asking what makes a monster scary often tells us a lot about what society fears.


In this generative workshop, Tania De Rozario shares her love of horror films and feminine monstrosity and will show how, as a queer woman, empathising with female monsters has helped her discover new ways to tell her stories. 


This single-session course will focus on helping participants use horror, myth, and monsters to discover news ways to tell their own stories. It will comprise a short warm-up exercise, a 20-minute presentation, 50 minutes of guided writing focusing on persona, and an opportunity to share the writing that was generated during the session.

This class is open to writers of all experience levels, 18 and above.

Tania De Rozario is a writer, visual artist and author of three books. And The Walls Come Crumbling Down (Gaudy Boy, 2020 / Math Paper Press, 2016) was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award finalist, and Tender Delirium (Math Paper Press, 2013) was on the shortlist for the 2014 Singapore Literature Prize. Her work has won the New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest (2020), the Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest (2021), Singapore’s Golden Point Award (2011), and has made the “Notable” list of Best American Essays (2021). Her essay collection, Dinner on Monster Island, comes out with Harper Perennial in 2024.