HomeWord Bound
Home base. There’s no place like home. Home is where the heart is. A person’s home is their castle. Take me home, country roads. The concept of home has been examined by writers and artists forever – but what is home? Is it a place? Is it where you’re living? Where you run to after third base? How long do you have to be somewhere before it becomes home? Is it a house or a person? Using home as the base for our fiction writing, we will write about home in all its forms – from where one lives to where we feel most at home. This generative workshop aspires to give you the conversations, community, craft, and courage needed to approach your work as a writer and to invoke the kaleidoscopic array of experiences of home, from places, planets, people, and things. We’ll write about home in all its configurations.
Nina McConigley was born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming. Her short-story collection Cowboys and East Indians was the winner of the PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, High Country News, Ploughshares, Alaksa Quarterly Review, O, Oprah Magazine, Parents, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, and The Asian American Literary Review among others. In 2019-2020, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship. Her novel, How to Commit A Postcolonial Murder is forthcoming with Pantheon Books, as is an essay collection with the University of Georgia Press. She teaches at Colorado State University.