Coming soon! FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP with IVELISSE RODRIGUEZ, Sunday 5/1 @ 1 PM ET!

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder to mark your calendars for next Sunday!

We’re offering a 90-minute, free online workshop for all Las Dos Brujas subscribers by the wonderful writer and teacher Ivelisse Rodriguez.

Whether you’re someone who relies on outlines (or not), all writers have to get down to the business of structure at one point or another. This workshop will help you do just that!

Here’s a refresher on the information.

IVELISSE’S WORKSHOP:

THE CREATIVITY OF A NARRATIVE ARC

Outlining and creativity are often seen as diametrical. In writing a story, creativity is not enough. In this workshop, we will learn how to use the traditional narrative arc to outline and write stories. We will identify key points integral to story making, such as the conflict, the climax, and the rising action. We will also engage in outline writing exercises. As time permits, some of these outlines will be critiqued. At the end of the class, you will have an outline for one of your stories, along with the knowledge of how and why to use an outline while maintaining your creativity.

IVELISSE’S BIO:

Ivelisse Rodriguez’s debut short story collection Love War Stories was a 2019 PEN/Faulkner finalist and a 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES finalist. She has published fiction in the Boston Review, Obsidian, Kweli, the Bilingual Review, Aster(ix), and other publications. She is a contributing arts editor for the Boston Review, where she acquires fiction. She was a senior fiction editor at Kweli and is a Kimbilio fellow and a Las Dos Brujas and VONA/Voices alum. She earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College and a Ph.D. in English-creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. To learn more about Ivelisse, visit: www.ivelisserodriguez.com.

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I’ll be posting a Zoom link on Saturday so please stay tuned. Thanks for supporting our community and our latest literary endeavor!

Abrazos,

Cristina

PS: And I’ll swinging by at the start of Sunday’s workshop to say ‘hi!’