MemoryWorks workshops provide a month-long structured yet intimate space for participants to delve into their own memory work projects, experiment with creative re-search tools and hybrid forms of writing, and generate new writing in a community of fellow writers, artists, and creatives.

Each month-long workshop includes:

• 3-hour weekly meetings over Zoom (usually on a Friday afternoon)

• readings and examples of memory work by “next gen” writers and artists

• in-class guided writing and take-home writing provocations

• a safe and supportive space to write together, give and receive feedback, and share resources with other memory workers

In addition, participants may choose to add on a one-on-one consult with Kim.

Whether you are just beginning to ask questions of your past, or you have begun
the work of turning over soil and gathering remains, these workshops will offer you creative tools for digging into the gaps between what you’ve been taught to remember, what has been buried or disappeared, and what you have to imagine in order to get closer to truth.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

Writing into Silence:
A Workshop for Asian Pacific Diasporic Writers

November 7, 14, 21 & December 5, 12, 2025
4:00-7:00 PM EST

This five-week remote workshop is for writers, story-tellers, and truth-tellers who are trying to trace elusive family histories within and across the Pacific. During our time together, we will experiment with creative tools and and hybrid forms for re-searching and writing into intergenerational silences and historical erasures that are all too familiar within Asian Pacific diasporic families and communities. We will explore the shapes and forms these silences take—in the family, on the body, between nations—and how to re-fashion and re-claim them as next gen writers.

Spring 2025 Workshop:

WORKING WITH UN/COMMON SOURCES

May 9, 16, 23, 30, 2025
3:00-6:00 PM EST

Have you been quietly gathering remains of the past
and looking for creative ways to work with the gaps and silences in your archive?

Image: “Grandparents,” Karen B. Song
Animation: Jhani Randhawa

This workshop is designed for those who have been quietly doing the piecework of gathering remains of the past: a scribbled letter, an illegible document, a blurred photograph, a tale repeatedly told, a fragment of a memory of a conversation, words on a page in a language you do not recognize, a recurring dream, a mysterious object, a secret uncovered. Some sources may speak to you with authority, yet seem to be hiding something. Others you may dismiss as untrustworthy, yet sense their import for the work of truth-telling.

During our time together, we will work with conventional archival sources such as documents, photographs, and interviews in unconventional ways, and draw on source materials often dismissed as unreliable—secrets, lies, propaganda, dreams, hallucinations, hauntings—in order to get closer to truth. We will experiment with creative, hybrid forms of writing that offer novel ways of entering, imagining, and reckoning with the silences of the past.