The Creative Writing Club welcomes emerging and established writers to write, for free, in a communal and welcoming space. Please join us from 2-3 p.m., via Zoom, for forty minutes of dedicated writing time.
Our Wed., Oct. 1 meeting will feature award-winning writer Desiree Cooper. Our Wed., Oct. 8 meeting will feature acclaimed journalist Minda Honey. Our guests will talk about their work for the first few minutes, and then we’ll spend forty minutes writing, before regrouping at the end. Zoom information for the meeting is below.
Desiree Cooper is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist, former attorney, and editor of the groundbreaking 2026 anthology, Black Summers: Growing up in the Urban Outdoors. Her fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Daily, MSNBC Daily, Flash Fiction America 2023, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, River Teeth, Best African American Fiction 2010, and noted in The Best American Essays 2019. Cooper’s children’s picture book, Nothing Special, is a 2023 Paterson Prizewinner and included on the New York Public Library’s “10 Best Children’s Books of 2022.
Minda Honey’s (she/her) essays on politics and relationships have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Oxford American, Harvard’s Nieman Storyboard, and Longreads. Her work is featured in “Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger”, “A Measure of Belonging: 21 Writers of Color on the New American South”, and “Sex and the Single Woman: 24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown’s Cult Classic.” Her debut memoir, THE HEARTBREAK YEARS (Little A, October 2023), is a hilarious and intimate portrait of a Black woman finding who she is and who she wants to be, one bad date at a time. She also sends out a weekly newsletter, MID., about being mid-life and mid-career.
For more information, contact Dr. Rochelle Spencer at rspencer@lagcc.cuny.edu.