Dreaming the Future: Creative Writing for Kids and Their Grown-Ups!

Calling dreamers of all ages! Naomi Day, artist-in-resident at the Peter Bullough Foundation, will lead kids and their grown-ups in a workshop that encourages dreaming up what the future could be through the use of creative writing. What could the world look like if all our needs were met? What kind of adventures and beauty might we discover? Come dream and write alongside your kiddo to discover how wonderful the future could be!

We are thrilled to partner with Handley Library for this event! The event will be held in the Benham Room at Handley Library.

About The Artist

Naomi Day is a teaching artist and interdisciplinary storyteller working with Black speculative fiction and film photography. Her writing examines the politics of the Black body, the construct of social monstrosity, and generational trauma as inheritance, though mostly she just aims to tell really good stories. Her work in the classroom is rooted in the belief that art making is world making, and sometimes we just need someone to give us permission to create.

Naomi’s short fiction has appeared in Uncanny Magazine and Black Warrior Review, among others, and her critical writing has appeared in Lit Hub. She’s received gifts of time and scholarship from the Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Carl Brandon Society, and more, and she owes a particular debt of gratitude to The Seventh Wave for their avid support of her work in all forms. She’s a member of the Clarion West class of 2022, holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, and works as an editor and engineer in her various other lives.