Words of the People x Workshops
Wednesday, October 26 - Saturday, October 29, 2022
Enrollment information available at following link:

https://iaia.empower-xl.com/.../browse/LOC/ON/ATVL_ID/25

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Words of the People x Faculty Readings
Thursday, October 27, 2022 | 6-7:30pm
Zêdan Xelef, Laura Da’, Shook, and Chelsea T. Hicks
Friday, October 28 | 6-7:30pm
Manny Loley, Ofelia Zepeda, Beth Piatote, and Inés Hernández-Avila

Tulsa Artist Fellowship | Flagship
112 N. Boston Ave. Tulsa, OK 74103
Free and open to all

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The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and Tulsa Artist Fellow Chelsea T. Hicks invite the Tulsa community to Words of the People, a four-day gathering in Tulsa supporting indigenous language writers to develop their creative writing through workshops in a genre of their choice: fiction, poetry, non-fiction or translation. Immersion activities provided by linguists and community revitalizers focus on growing fluency to move indigenous languages toward vitality.

From Wednesday, October 26 - Saturday, October 29, attendees can enroll in morning writing workshops available either in-person or via Zoom. Sessions support indigenous language writers to develop their creative writing through workshops in a genre of their choice: fiction, poetry, non-fiction or translation. Immersion activities provided by linguists and community revitalizers focus on growing fluency to move indigenous languages toward vitality.

Over two evenings at Tulsa Artist Fellowship's Flagship space, all are welcome to free readings featuring the esteemed Words of the People faculty including Zêdan Xelef, Laura Da’, Shook, and Chelsea T. Hicks on Thursday, October 27 and Manny Loley, Ofelia Zepeda, Beth Piatote, and Inés Hernández-Avila

For more information about Words of the People, visit www.wtpgathering.org.

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Chelsea Tayrien Hicks is a writer. She has lived in San Francisco, Pawhuska, and Hampton Roads, where she grew up in diaspora from the Wazhazhe people. Her first book, A Calm & Normal Heart, is forthcoming from Unnamed Press in June 2022. She is at work on a poetry collection in Wahzhazhe ie with support from the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation. Her writing has been published in McSweeney’s, Yellow Medicine Review, the LA Review of Books, Indian Country Today, the Believer, The Audacity, The Paris Review, and shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Manetti Shrem Museum. In 2017, she received an MA from the University of California, Davis, and became involved in California Wazhazhe groups. She also earned an MFA in the creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she now teaches creative writing. Her advocacy work has included heritage language creative writing and revitalization workshops, and The Ford Foundation awarded her a 2021 honorable mention for promotion of Indigenous-language creative writing. She is organizing a 2022 Indigenous language creative writing workshop called Words of the People, hosted here in Tulsa.