A week long writer's workshop will have popular Indigenous panelists and promotes Native student involvement in place based writing.
The Elk River Writers Workshop started in 2015, and this year multiple Indigenous writers will instruct students from August 15th through the 20th in Chico Hot Springs, Montana.
Elk River Writers Workshop president CMarie Furhman (Southern Ute) says that Indigenous students are supported by financial scholarship and are encouraged to write about anything from colonization to identity.
“And we don't think anyone benefits from a classroom full of people who just sound like themselves or sound like each other. That being said, it's also important to have native teachers,” Fuhrman says.
The evening panels of writers will be open to the public. Indigenous panelists include Terese Mailhot, Sterling Holywhitemoutain, Adrian Jawort, and Beth Piatote.
Taylar Stagner is Yellowstone Public Radio's Report for America Indigenous Affairs reporter.
