New Online Workshop with Alejandro Nodarse! Mark your calendars for Sun., Oct. 9 @ 1 PM ET

Hi Everyone,

By popular demand, the wonderfully dynamic Alejandro Nodarse will be back to teach another one of his outstanding workshops. You’re going to want to come to this one!

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IN THE BEGINNING … : OPENINGS, PROMISES, AND GROUNDING YOUR NEW PROJECT

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” ―Plato, The Republic

When discussing the beginnings of her works, Toni Morrison once said: “Endings I always know, because that’s always what the book is about. The problem is getting there. I used to have these really awful beginnings—never really beginnings, they were starts.” What, exactly, is the difference between a beginning and a start? How are the promises made by a short story’s opening different from those of a novel’s beginning? How are they different from the beginning of a piece of creative nonfiction? The matter of what defines a beginning and a start is much more than semantics: it’s a matter of knowing, as a writer, where you find yourself in your project’s journey. This generative workshop will explore the makings of a compelling beginning in order to help us start fresh, compelling new writing projects.

BIO: Alejandro Nodarse is a fiction writer, poet, and essayist. Since completing a master’s degree in English Literature and an MFA in Fiction, he has served as the Fiction Artist in Residence at The Deering Estate in Miami. He has been a finalist for the 2019 CINTAS Foundation Fellowship, was a 2020 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Fellow, received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship, and was a runner up for the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Award in 2021. His work has appeared in The Acentos Review, Burrow Press, Jai-Alai Press and other publications. A former apprentice arborist and independent bookseller, he now teaches writing at Miami Dade College and at Homestead Senior High in Homestead, FL.

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I’ll be sending you a reminder closer to the event as well as a Zoom link the day before. This workshop is 90 minutes long and FREE to our community. Another way of saying thank you for being here! Countdown ….

Abrazos,

Cristina