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URL:https://debtcollective.org/event/writing-your-debt-story-a-short-form-
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SUMMARY:WRITING YOUR DEBT STORY Part 1: A Short-form & Op-Ed Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Author\, educator\, and Debt Collective fellow Kristin Collier 
 will be offering a two-part writing workshop focused on telling your debt 
 story in short forms such as op-eds. The workshop will be loosely organize
 d around the framework of “seeing red\,” the unique\, important ways i
 n which borrowers\, who live in the red\, see the world\, and the stories 
 we must tell in order to build the world we deserve.\n\nIn part one of the
  workshop\, we’ll look at sample writing\, discuss focus\, structure\, l
 anguage\, and research\, and do some writing and experimentation together.
  You’ll leave the session with a plan to write a short essay or op-ed ab
 out your experiences. In part two of the workshop\, we’ll use our initia
 l ideas to craft pitches for outlets\, receive feedback\, and talk about h
 ow we’ll support one another through the publication process.\n\nPlease 
 join regardless of where you are in the process of talking or writing abou
 t your debt story. We welcome storytelling around debt of all kinds– not
  just student debt.\n\n 	Kristin Collier is the author of What Debt Deman
 ds: Family Betrayal\, and Precarity in a Broken System. She is a graduate
  of the University of Minnesota MFA program and has been a recipient of Mi
 nnesota State Arts Board funding\, a Jack Hazard fellowship\, and a Yaddo 
 artist residency. Her writing has been published in Los Angeles Review of
  Books\, Oprah Daily\, Fourth Genre and Longreads and was recently ant
 hologized in Coffee House Press’s American Precariat. She is an organiz
 er with the Debt Collective and a visiting scholar and community engagemen
 t fellow in Metro State's higher education in prison program (TREC).\n\n\n
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