Helen Klonaris: Writing the Fantastic
with Helen Klonaris
Earth is a miraculous place. Teeming with life, from massive underground networks of mycelium to gentle manatees that roam the seas, Earth is home to countless incredible beings, including human ones. But our planet is in crisis. From superstorms ravaging small island countries, to fires devastating forests and neighborhoods, to thawing glaciers causing the imminent rise of sea levels across the globe, we are witnessing a suffering and disenchanted planet.
Scientists, activists, and Indigenous communities the world over have been calling for interventions to heal our Earth and to bring balance back to the great web of life. If fantasy in literature reveals possibilities where we had not thought to look for them, where we had not thought they existed, then writing the fantastic by tuning into our Earth and our more-than-human relations offers us a way to intervene.
In this eight-week online workshop, we'll use myth, fairy tale, and the fantastic of all kinds, as well as the words and voices of some of the most thoughtful ecological writers today, to imagine climate interventions, non-human stories, and a re-enchanted Earth. We need wonder tales and fantastic stories now more than ever!
An eight-week immersion | Cost is $420 | Thursdays, 6pm-8pm EST | July 11-August 29, 2024. To learn more and register, please email helenklonaris@gmail.com.
Helen Klonaris is a writer, a writing doula, a healing practitioner, and co-keeper of Sacred Islands Sanctuary in Nassau, Bahamas. She is the creator of the Writing the Fantastic Series and believes in the power of magic in literature and in our lives to transform separation and remember us to the great web of life—the Animate All, our Home. Her short story collection If I Had the Wings was a finalist for the BOCAS Caribbean Prize for Literature. She is co-editor of the anthology Writing the Walls Down, and the author of numerous poems, short stories, and essays, including Landfall: The Air We (Can't) Breathe. Visit Helen at www.helenklonarisfiction.com and www.soulhealingway.com.
