Skull Dogs Media

05/01/2026

We’re continuing our documentation of Go Back & Fetch It Year 2, created by More Than A Single Story to uplift early-career Black writers in Minnesota.

In this session, KidLit author and educator Sarah Warren guided fellows through a joyful exploration of children’s literature and the importance of representation.

Through picture book analysis, childhood memory prompts, six-word autobiographies, and reflections on why we write, Sarah helped make kid-lit feel accessible and full of possibility

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Go Back and Fetch It Session 6 with Children's Book Author Sarah Warren giving an introduction and deep dive into KidLit writing in this Skull Dogs Media highlight with More than a Single Story at Merriam Park Library

05/01/2026

We’re continuing our documentation of Go Back & Fetch It Year 2, created by More Than A Single Story to uplift early-career Black writers in Minnesota.

In this session, McKnight Distinguished Artist, Carolyn Holbrook herself guided fellows through an exploration of creative nonfiction, using meaningful objects as doorways into memory and detail.

Through writing and storytelling exercises, participants explored how the same story can shift depending on perspective, revealing otherwise hidden truths

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Go Back and Fetch It Session 5 with McKnight Distinguished Artist, writer and founder of More Than a Single Story, Carolyn Holbrook, guiding cohort members through the world of creative nonfiction writing in this Skull Dogs Media highlight with More than a Single Story at The Coven in Minneapolis

05/01/2026

We’re continuing our documentation of Go Back & Fetch It Year 2, created by More Than A Single Story to uplift early-career Black writers in Minnesota.

In this session, Arleta Little guided fellows through a practical and empowering conversation about grants, residencies, funding opportunities, and what it means to sustain a life as a writer.

The session bridged creative practice with real-world survival, offering fellows tools and resources for supporting their work beyond the page.

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Go Back and Fetch It Session 4 with writer and educator Arleta Little. Exploring ways to keep writing sustainable in this Skull Dogs Media highlight with More than a Single Story at Merriam Park Library

05/01/2026

We’re continuing our documentation of Go Back & Fetch It! Year 2, created by More Than A Single Story to uplift early-career Black writers in Minnesota.

This article follows two special workshops: an in-person poetry workshop with Ash Wynter and a virtual fiction workshop with Junauda Petrus.

Held during the height of Metro Surge, the workshops offered two very different approaches to creative practice, one centered on critique, care, and close reading, the other on intuition, movement, and beginning new work.

Together, they showed how the fellowship continued to adapt, creating space for writers to refine their voices and begin again even under difficult circumstances.

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Documentation of the Go Back and Fetch It Workshops with poet Ash Wynter guiding cohort members through a workshop on poetry, and Author and Poet Laureate Junauda Petrus generating new work with writers in fiction writing in this Skull Dogs Media highlight with More than a Single Story at Highland P

05/01/2026

We’re continuing our documentation of Go Back & Fetch It Year 2, created by More Than A Single Story to uplift early-career Black writers in Minnesota.

In Session 3, Ash Wynter led fellows through an exploration of the poem as a container, looking at how form, repetition, punctuation, and structure shape meaning on the page.

Later, Shannon Gibney joined the group for a candid conversation about publishing, readership, agents, editors, and the realities of moving creative work into the literary world.

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Go Back and Fetch It Session 3 with poet Ash Wynter and author Shannon Gibney. Examine the poem as a container and how form and voice hold the work in this Skull Dogs Media highlight with More than a Single Story at The Coven in Minneapolis

05/01/2026

We’re continuing our documentation of Go Back & Fetch It Year 2, created by More Than A Single Story to uplift early-career Black writers in Minnesota.

In Session 2, MC Tish Jones guided fellows through an energetic exploration of performance, movement, diction and voice. The session shifted the room from workshop to rehearsal, inviting writers to embody their words and challenge narrow ideas of what spoken word is “supposed” to sound like.

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Go Back and Fetch It Session 2 with Poet and Emcee Tish Jones. Explore spoken word and embodying poetry through performance in this Skull Dogs Media highlight with More than a Single Story at Rondo Library

05/01/2026

05/01/2026

We’re continuing our documentation of Go Back & Fetch It Year 2, created by More Than A Single Story to support early-career Black writers in Minnesota.

In the first session, Sherrie Fernandez-Williams guided fellows through a powerful exploration of voice: how it's shaped by honesty, specificity, lineage, memory, and the willingness to dwell in complexity.

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Go Back and Fetch It Session 1 with writer and arts leader Sherrie Fernandez-Williams. Explore how voice, honesty, and lineage shape powerful storytelling in this Skull Dogs Media highlight with More than a Single Story at Rondo Library