The Art of Writing About Community with Mai Sennaar

Saturday, August 22, 2026

Join writer Mai Sennaar for a conversational, dynamic writing workshop that examines how writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Sandra Cisneros leverage the concept of community—local, global, cultural, spiritual—in their storytelling to shape literary forms, voice, and structure.

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