Upcoming Workshops, Readings, and Events.
Fund Your Writing: Fellowships, Grants, & Residencies
Saturday, May 11 | 10:30am - 11:30am ET (one day)
Muse & the Marketplace in Boston, MA
Conference Registration ($620 - 795)
What's more satisfying than leaving work behind on a Friday evening? Rounding out the week with a free virtual writing session, of course! Maximize that Friday night feeling and kick off your writing weekend with us online! Join us for a Friday Night Writes Session on Friday, June 7th, from 5:30pm-6:30pm and log into GrubStreet Online for some writing! In 60 jam-packed minutes, you’ll meet fellow writers and get your creative juices flowing with some great writing exercises.
Best of all, you’ll sign off with some new ideas to ponder for the rest of your evening and beyond.
What's more satisfying than leaving work behind on a Friday evening? Rounding out the week with a free virtual writing session, of course! Maximize that Friday night feeling and kick off your writing weekend with us online! Join us for a Friday Night Writes Session on Friday, June 7th, from 5:30pm-6:30pm and log into GrubStreet Online for some writing! In 60 jam-packed minutes, you’ll meet fellow writers and get your creative juices flowing with some great writing exercises.
Best of all, you’ll sign off with some new ideas to ponder for the rest of your evening and beyond.
Past Readings & Events
“Creating and Sustaining a Satisfying Writing Life.” WriteAngles Conference. Northampton, MA (2024).
Literary Reading & Open Mic for Palestine/UNRWA. Bookends, Florence, MA (2024).
Conversation with Ani Gjika. Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA (2024).
“Women, Life, Freedom: Iranian Writers Reading & in Conversation.” RAWIFest+Mizna 2023. Minneapolis, MN (2023).
RAWIFest+Mizna 2023 Reading. Minneapolis (2023).
The Elemental Salon. Florence, MA (2023).
The Thirsty Lab Reading. Zoom (2023).
2022 Edith Wharton / Straw Dog Writers-in-Residence Celebration. Lenox, MA (2022).
AGNI Launch of Issue 95. Goethe-Institut Boston. Boston, MA (2022).
QTWOC + QPOC Winnipeg. Zoom (2022).
Radius of Arab American Writers Festival (RAWIFest). Zoom (2021).
Poetry Reading with Fatemeh Shams. Blacksburg, VA (2019).
Past Workshops
Jumpstart Your Writing. Grub Street (2024).
Intro to Poetry. Grub Street (2024).
Submitting to Literary Markets & Magazines. Assets for Artists (2024).
Beloved: How to Write a Love Letter (2024).
Fund Your Writing: Residencies, Fellowships, & Grants. Grub Street (2024).
Fund Your Writing: Residencies, Fellowships, & Grants. Virginia Tech (2023).
Submitting to Paying Literary Journals. Virginia Tech (2023).
Poet Tea: Making & Writing about Tea in collaboration with Saba Keramati. Hugo House (2023).
MFA Application Crash Course. Grub Street (2023).
Cultivating Sustainable Writing Practices. Bennington Writing Seminars Winter Residency (2023).
Jumpstart Your Writing. Grub Street (2022, 2023, 2024).
Finding Your Literary Community. The Loft Literary Center (2022, 2023).
Submitting to Paid Literary Markets. The Loft Literary Center (2022, 2023).
Writing the MFA Application. The Loft Literary Center (2022, 2023).
Poetry Basics. The Loft Literary Center (2021, 2022, 2023).
Introduction to Poetry. The Loft Literary Center (2021, 2022, 2023).
Introduction to Poetry. Lamplighter Literary Arts Summer Writing Institute, (2021).
Introduction to Creative Writing, Virginia Tech (2020).
Contemporary Iranian-American Creative Nonfiction. University of Maryland Summer Language Institute Graduate Education Panel (2018).
Poetry Basics
Join me for 4 Mondays (August 2, August 9, August 16, and August 23) from 5pm-7pm EST (4pm-6pm CST) for an introduction to poetry through the Loft.
Lamplighter Literary Arts Summer Writing Institute
Join me for 2-week online writing course for students entering grades 7-12 this summer through the 2021 Lamplighter Literary Arts Summer Writing Institute (LLASWI). International students are encouraged to apply. Financial aid available.
RAWIFest
Join me for a poetry reading through the Radius of Arab American Writers Festival (RAWIFest). I will read alongside poets Zein Sa’dedin, Deema Shehabi, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Aliah Lavonne Tigh, and Hazem Fahmy.
Loft Sampler Class: Poetry
Join me for an online 1-hour poetry class hosted through the Loft. Click on the link for registration details.
Follow Your Art Community Studios Poetry 101
Yasmine will teach an online 5-week introductory poetry class for adult beginners through Follow Your Art Community Studios. In this class, students will look at diction, syntax, the stanza and the line, sonic play, imagery, and figurative language in poetry as well as practice poetic forms (e.g. persona poems, odes, elegies, ekphrasis) that necessitate a curiosity about the outside world. Each class period, we will learn a new poetry concept, read a poem and discuss how we see the work at play, and then generate our own poems. There will be opportunities to share our work with peers. Click here to register.