Bringing Essential Stories to the Page
Founded with the goal of giving voice to immigrant writers, the Restless Books Immigrant Writing Workshops empower aspiring writers to fulfill their dreams. Our program is unique in that it offers training and development specifically designed around immigration. We provide students with the creative, technical, and professional skills they need to confidently share their stories.
NEW workshops
Coming this Fall:
Restless Books, in conjunction with the New York Public Library, will be offering three immigrant writing workshops:
Poetry: Remote
Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 6:30 - 8 PM
Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 6:30 - 8 PM
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 6:30 - 8 PM
Memoir: In-person - October
Fiction: Remote
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 6:30 - 8 PM
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 6:30 - 8 PM
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 6:30 - 8 PM
Workshop Information
Stay tuned for more information, and follow us on social media for more updates!
About the Instructors
ILAN STAVANS
Ilan Stavans is the publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words, Spanglish, Dictionary Days, The Disappearance, and A Critic’s Journey. He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile’s Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans’s work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast."
Isaiah Stavchansky
Isaiah Stavchansky is a New York–based Mexican-American writer, actor, and educator. His plays have been developed and produced with Atlantic Acting School, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Tank, and Kenyon College. Atlantic Acting School Conservatory (2020). BA: Kenyon College (2018).
“The poet’s work whispered in my ears with a subtle hint: there was an exceptional bond between Xinyu and me in that bigger universe beyond the ploughed fields. We were more than just classmates. Our thoughts and views were rooted in much deeper and richer soil.”