Graphic novelist Sophie Yanow leads attendees using prompts, freewriting, and drawing to inhabit and capture a memory on the page. Drawing supplies and paper will be provided, but attendees may bring and use their own preferred pens, pencils, or paper if desired. This workshop is suitable for both new and practiced artists and writers.
Sophie Yanow is a California-based artist, writer and educator. She spent ten years teaching in MFA programs at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont. She has been published by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review and more. Her coming-of-age graphic novel The Contradictions (Drawn & Quarterly) was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Comics, longlisted for the Believer Book Award, and won the 2019 Eisner for Best Webcomic. Her work has also appeared on the Best American Comics 2015 & 2018 notable lists. Her translation of Dominique Goblet’s Pretending is Lying received the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and she has been a MacDowell Fellow.