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“Stories of NYC: Asian American & Asian Diasporic Memoir Writing” (Summer 2025)
July 15 @ 12:00 pm - August 14 @ 5:00 pm
⭐ Open to ALL current Hunter College and BMCC undergraduate students, regardless of identity and background. ⭐
Do you want to write about your life but don’t know where to begin? Do you want to improve your writing in a creative, fun environment? Join award winning writer Bushra Rehman (Roses, In the Mouth of a Lion) for a series of free creative writing Zoom workshops. This is the last time we will be running this seminar.
Seminar Format
– 6 online workshops (must attend all to participate); Tuesdays & Thursdays (7/15. 7/17, 7/22, 7/24, 7/29, 7/31), 11 am- 1pm.
– Reading Celebration: Thursday, 8/14, from 7pm to 8:30pm
Apply by 5pm, Wed, 5/28: bit.ly/sumwrite2025
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dr. Linh An: La1092@hunter.cuny.edu.
About the instructor: Bushra Rehman’s first book of stories Corona, a poetic on-the-road adventure about being South-Asian in the United States, was chosen by the NY Public Library as one of its favorite books about NYC. She’s co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and author of the collection of poetry Marianna’s Beauty Salon, described by Joseph O. Legaspi as “a love poem for Muslim girls, Queens, and immigrants making sense of their foreign home–and surviving.” Rehman’s novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, which centers around the idea of friendship and queer desire, was chosen as a Best Book of the year by NPR, Buzzfeed, Lambda, Chicago Review of Books, LA Times, Ms. and many others.