Feb
22
1:00 PM13:00

"Finding Home" Creative Writing Workshop: Emer Martin

Lost and Found: Writing Identity, Displacement, and Discovery

A Creative Writing Workshop Inspired by The Namesake*

In this creative writing workshop, participants will delve into themes of identity, displacement, cultural conflict, family ties, and the weighty expectations we place on love, inspired by Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. Through a series of focused writing exercises, we will craft fresh, emotionally layered narratives that explore the complexities of belonging and self-invention. Writers will engage in structured prompts designed to evoke rich, original detail, dynamic dialogue, and powerful subtext, drawing from personal experience or deepening the development of characters in their current projects. You do not need prior knowledge of the book before the workshop but we will mine it for themes. The session will feature brief discussions on craft techniques, followed by dedicated writing time and optional group sharing. By the end of the workshop, participants will have generated compelling, resonant pieces and gained a deeper insight into how personal and cultural histories shape character and story.

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Jan
25
1:00 PM13:00

"Finding Home" Creative Writing Workshop with Sadhbh Walshe

Join NYIC for the first in a series of creative writing workshops with published authors as students embark on a day-long writing journey.

Today, our creative writing workshop is led by writer Sadhbh Walshe. She will lead an intimate group of writers in a creative workshop with a focus on the themes (immigration, family, assimilation, etc.) of the novel The Namesake.

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Sadhbh Walshe is a New York based writer and journalist. She has written op eds and features for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, NBC Think, CBS, The Irish Times, The Chicago Tribune, Al Jazeera America, and she wrote a weekly opinion column for The Guardian. She was awarded a John Jay/ H.F Guggenheim justice fellowship and was named a Soros Justice fellowship finalist for her year-long Guardian series, Inside Story: The US Prison System. She was an associate producer for the TV pilot The District on CBS and a staff writer for the syndicated tv series. She wrote and directed the award-winning short film Miss Bertram’s Awakening and her short play Sanctuary was recently produced as part of Origin Theatre’s Breaking Ground series in New York. The Write Off is her most recent full-length play.

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Nov
15
11:00 AM11:00

"Finding Home" Partner Launch with India Home "Our Immigrant Stories"

New York Irish Center in partnership with India Home present Finding Home: Our Immigrant Stories. As part of the Big Read grant supported by the National Endowment for the Arts by Arts Midwest, Finding Home presents a panel discussion featuring three women of Indian or Irish descent, discussing their respective journeys in America from their experience as immigrants.

Using the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri as a disccusion point, the panel will discuss what it means to leave home for America and all that that journey entails, including adopting new cultural norms and retaining the customs of home, finding a footing in a foreign land, assimilating to American customs, and much more.

The panel will feature Mitra Kalita (CEO of URL Media & Publisher of Epicenter-NYC), Dr Nalini Juthani (ret. professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine), and Irish novelist Yvonne Cassidy, followed by a Q&A, dance performance by Boo Samroo, and a delicious meal of Indian cusine.

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NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with

Arts Midwest.

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