Thursday, Jun 4, 2026
Writing Workshop w/ Hannah Kingsley-Ma
About
For this workshop, we’ll be using fictional foods as a prompt for our writing. Our fictional characters, like ourselves, have to eat. And when they do, we often learn a lot about them: who they share their life with, what sort of things bring them comfort or disgust, what private pleasures they allow themselves, what airs they put on in front of others, how they feel in their bodies, what kind of appetites they stoke.
We’ll be discussing Alice Munro’s short story A Real Life to look how food is used in that particular story, and using that to come up with a writing exercise of our own. You can use this session for any existing project you might have in progress or as a blank page for something new.
Writers of all kinds, from seasoned to just-starting, are warmly welcome!
Artist
Bio
Hannah Kingsley-Ma is a writer and audio producer living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in publications like The Drift, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The New Republic, Joyland, ZYZZYVA, The Guardian, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Short Stories 2025.
She was the 2020-21 Axinn NYU Writer-in-Residence, and awarded honorable mention for the 2021 The Center for Fiction/Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship. Her work has been supported by the Corporation of Yaddo, Millay Arts, Marble House Foundation, and the Norton Island Residency. She teaches creative writing at NYU.
