Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Bristol Public Library, Bristol, Virginia, holds a Teen Creative Writing Workshop on Tuesdays at 3:15 p.m. The workshop begins March 31 and runs through May 5.
BPT Teen Space Writer-in Residence, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, leads the six-session course. Participants use writing exercises and feedback sessions designed to provide an encouraging space for creative risk taking.
No experience is necessary, and all genres are welcome. Work on poetry, prose, scripts, D&D scenarios or any other writing that benefits from feedback.
Those who sign up in advance and commit to all six-sessions receive a free copy of Austin Kleon’s “Steal Like an Artist.”
Cowhig is an internationally produced playwright whose trilogy “The China Plays: Three Parables of Global Capital” was recently published by Methuen Drama and is comprised of plays that have been staged in the United Kingdom at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Hampstead Theatre and the National Theatre, and in the United States at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theater Club, Classic Stage and the Goodman Theatre. Her audio musical “Last Words of Uncle Dirt” was produced by Playwrights Horizons and is a collaboration with composer Michael Roth.
Her body of work has been honored with the Wasserstein Prize, the Yale Drama Series Award (selected by David Hare), an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the David A. Callichio Award, the Keene Prize for Literature and a United States Artist Fellowship. She has received support from artist residencies at Yaddo, Macdowell, Hedgebrook, Ragdale, the Sundance Playwright Retreats at Ucross and Flying Point, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.
She was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Northern Virginia, Okinawa, Taipei and Beijing. She received an MFA in Writing from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, a BA in Sociology from Brown University, and a certificate in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.
The workshop is a tech-free zone; printing and making copies of work for feedback is available in the Teen Space.
Email Amanda at Amandaa@bristol-library.org to sign up. Workshop is for ages 11-18.
