WEATHER/WILDERNESS Writing Workshop

​WEATHER/WILDERNESS is a 2-hour generative writing workshop for all levels, led by Shruti Swamy and Susanna Kwan (from the teaching collective The Dream Side). We'll explore weather as framework for understanding real and imaginary worlds and shaping a narrative. Then you'll connect with your internal landscape—the mysterious, dreamlike space of artistic creation inside each of us. Join us for an evening of fearless and joyful creative exploration

Susanna Kwan is an artist and writer from San Francisco. Her debut novel, Awake in the Floating City, is the winner of the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Climate Fiction Prize.

​Shruti Swamy is the author of A House Is a Body:  Stories, and The Archer. Her novel Margret & Vishnu is forthcoming from Algonquin Books in 2027.

​The Dream Side is a collective of writers and friends—Meng Jin, Rachel Khong, Shruti Swamy, and Susanna Kwan—offering writing classes, retreats, and creative community.