About the Workshop
Memory is the raw material of the personal essay. In this workshop, you will learn techniques for mining your memories — not for accuracy, but for meaning. Through timed writing sprints, craft discussions, and peer sharing, you’ll begin to shape lived experience into compelling nonfiction.
About the Facilitator
Aekta Khubchandani is a writer and educator whose debut poetry manuscript, A Glass of Blue, was a finalist for the Rising Writer Prize 2024 (Autumn House Press). She is the founder of Poetry Plant Project, a safe and inclusive platform, where she conducts generative writing workshops for adults. She is the winner of the Breakout Prize in Poetry (2022) and The Baltimore Review Winter Poetry Contest, and a finalist for Indiana Review’s Poetry Prize.
Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction. Her writing appears in journals including Tupelo Quarterly, The Offing, Penn Review, VIDA, Variant Lit, The Bombay Literary Review and elsewhere.
Aekta holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, New York, and has taught creative writing at Parsons School of Design, WriteOn NYC, and Girls Write Now, to name a few.
She is currently teaching the Multi-Genre Pathway at Sahab Collective, in Dubai.
Details of the workshop
Dates: Sept 30, 2025
Timings: 11am – 1pm IST
Fees: ₹1,000
Platform: Zoom
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