Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $40)

Step 2: Register for “Storytelling Out of Your People” here

Join novelist Chantal James in a generative workshop for fiction writers of all levels to think about writing in the role of griot or cultural worker--one who owes something to the community they come from and who writes out of that community.

Chantal will share from and discuss her novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS along with selections from other writers who seek to hold cultural memory in their work. We will discuss what drives us to write out of who we are and where we come from. Writers of all levels can expect to come away with ideas for new work, drafts, and projects to play with.

Chantal James lives in working-class Black Washington, DC, and has been published across genres—as a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and book reviewer—in such venues as The New Republic, Catapult, Paste Magazine, Harvard’s Transition Magazine, The Bitter Southerner, Obsidian, and Callalloo. Her honors include a Fulbright fellowship in creative writing to Morocco. Her 2022 novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS from Counterpoint Press was one of Kiruks' 10 most anticipated books of its year and a nominee for the John P. Leonard Prize for Best First Book from the National Book Critics Circle.