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Writing on the River
August 18, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 11:30 am
What if we could change the future of a place by learning about its past, reimagining the present, and inhabiting perspectives other than our own? Join us for a morning of imagination, meditation, and writing on the LA River as we attempt just that. No writing experience necessary. You’ll be warmly encouraged but not required to share your words.
When: Sunday 18th August, 9 a.m.–11.30 a.m.
Where: Lewis MacAdams Riverfront Park in Elysian Valley
How much: $5 suggested donation at the door. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Bring: Water, sunscreen, a hat, a notebook and pen. It’s also helpful to bring a cushion or blanket to sit on while you write, and a parasol or other form of shade, if you have one.
Accessibility: This will not be an accessible day—the riverbank and riverbed are uneven terrain and we’ll be picking our way along both. If you would like to take part in something like this but that won’t work for you, let us know – our event organizers would love to arrange an alternative route on a different day.
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About Carmiel Banasky and Ellie Robins:
Carmiel Banasky is the author of the novel The Suicide of Claire Bishop, which Publishers Weekly calls “an intellectual tour de force.” She has written for television (UNDONE, Amazon), and her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Guardian, Glimmer Train, LA Review of Books, Guernica, PEN America, The Rumpus, and on NPR, among other places. She has taught Creative Writing at Hunter College (where she earned her MFA), UCLA Extension, and numerous other programs. After four years on the road at writing residencies, including studying climate change in the Arctic, she now writes and teaches in Los Angeles.
Ellie Robins is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in the Guardian, the Washington Post, the LA Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. Her translation of the Argentine novelist Alan Pauls’s novel A History of Money was described by Publishers Weekly as a “stylistic tour de force.” She’s worked as an editor in London, Buenos Aires, and New York, and traveled the US in a trailer for a year, seeking its wild and secret parts. Her writing circles climate change, place, and story. A Londoner by birth, she now lives in Los Angeles.