We Are Urban Haiku – Decolonized Storytelling & Creative Liberation for the Global Majority
We’re so glad you’ve found your way here. At We Are Urban Haiku, we’ve created more than a platform—we’ve cultivated a living, breathing creative community for the writers, dreamers, disruptors, and truth-tellers of the global majority.
This is a space for us.
A space that decenters whiteness and challenges the status quo.
A space to decolonize and re-indigenize storytelling—not as a trend, but as a necessary reclamation of our voices, our culture, our power.
🌍 Our Vision: More Than Writing—A Movement
We Are Urban Haiku was born from a radical belief: that storytelling is a sacred act of resistance, resilience, and reimagination.
We are here to dismantle the barriers that have kept marginalized voices on the fringes.
We are here to create access to high-quality training, community, and craft—outside the confines of the traditional MFA system.
We are here to dance in the cracks, as Bayo Akomolafe reminds us—to shape new narratives in spaces where the old ones never fit.
✊ Who We’re For
BIPOC writers
Femme and queer storytellers
Creatives from historically marginalized communities
Those yearning for craft development and cultural grounding
The brave souls ready to write their truth with intention and fire
Whether you're just starting to discover your voice or you're a seasoned wordsmith ready to sharpen your edge, this is where your story gets the reverence it deserves.
📚 Our Workshops – Writing That Feeds the Spirit
We offer transformative courses led by brilliant instructors and special guests who share your fire. Here's a look at what’s coming up:
🪐 Science Fiction & Society with A.D. Boynton II
Starts: July 2, 2025
An introductory course exploring sci-fi and its sibling genres (fantasy, horror, magical realism, dystopia, etc.) as mirrors for political, cultural, and social truth-telling. Think aliens, time travel, and post-apocalypse—but with meaning, critique, and insight.
📝 Sign Up Now → Register Here
📖 Documentary Poetics with Diana Khoi Nguyen
Starts: July 24, 2025
Explore how poetry becomes an archive, a protest, and a prayer. Learn how contemporary poets craft new forms out of historical records, family documents, and memory fragments.
📝 Sign Up Now → Register Here
⚡ How to Get Unstuck with Katharine Coldiron
Date: July 12 at 12 PM PST
For the writer who’s stuck, blocked, or just plain burned out. This one-day generative workshop offers practical exercises, emotional support, and a creative reset.
📝 Sign Up Now → Register Here
🌺 What Makes Us Different
Rooted in Justice – We actively work to decolonize not just what we write, but how and why we write.
No Gatekeeping – You don’t need an MFA to get access here—just a willingness to show up.
Global Majority-Centered – Our offerings are built by and for those long excluded from the mainstream literary canon.
Healing Through Craft – Storytelling isn’t just skill—it’s medicine.
🧠 What You’ll Gain
A deeper connection to your voice and purpose
A creative family that sees and supports you
Real-time feedback and transformative exercises
A new definition of what it means to be a writer outside white-centered norms
💌 Join the Movement
This is your invitation to take up space.
To write the stories you were told not to.
To decolonize your pen and reindigenize your power.
Welcome home, writer.
👉 Explore our upcoming classes and workshops now at:
🔗 www.weareurbanhaiku.com
