Creative Writing Workshop: Generational Immigration

In this two part workshop, you get a chance to tell your story the way you want your story to be remembered. As immigrants, each one of us has an important story to tell. We might think that there are so many of us, and all the stories have already been told, but yours hasn’t been! Our wave of immigration has come to an end, and some of us, for decades have been assimilating to this new strange land. That story ends with us. Our children will tell some version of their parent’s immigrant past to their children, but if you don’t write it, it will be lost in translation.

Join Olia Toporovsky Gomez-Delgado for this two-part workshop that is a part of COJECO’s BluePrint Fellowship, where she will help you to unlock the writer in you!

Olia Toporovsky Gomez-Delgado was born in Vinnitsia, Ukraine. At the age of ten, her family emigrated to New Haven, Connecticut, in a wave of Russian-Jewish immigration that was saving Jews from Soviet persecution. After moving to NY and a short career on Wall Street, Olia has dedicated her life to her her own projects to better the world. Olia is a COJECO BluePrint fellow, who is working on a memoir about coming to America from the emotional perspective of a young girl on culture, relationships, and all things that come up in life, as well as the differences and similarities between Communism and Capitalism, immigrants and Americans. She is also a jewelry designer and a performance artist, fighting the binds of immigrant mentality, one creative project at a time.