This session places residents inside the soft architecture of imagination, looking at the ways that creators across genres build, rebuild, and unbuild worlds. This session will look at built worlds, real and imagined, to examine the limits and the possibilities of our imagination.

How do we know when we’re ready to write about something? For all kinds of reasons, the idea of “permission” can play a key role in our writing and our approach to it. In this session, we will dive into the world of dreams, obsessions, and subtext in an effort to surface with a sense of permission to put shape to the stories we know we need to tell.

Every writer walks with, into, through, and/or away from a dizzying array of archives: emotional, historical, familial, and otherwise. Here, we will dig into our deep storages — the experiences, behaviors, and patterns we inherit — while also interrogating accessibility: who gets to have an archive, and what happens when an archive is erased or taken from us?

This first session introduces residents to the Seventh Wave’s signature workshop model, The Mini Manifesto, which centers the writer — and two very specific questions — as a way to discuss, wield, and dissect the heart of our individual and collective work.

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