REMINDER: A FREE WORKSHOP offered by Las Dos Brujas! Next Sun. 2/27 @ 1 PM ET.

Hi Everyone,

This a friendly reminder about our free 90-minute Zoom workshop happening a week from today! I’ll be sending out a link on Saturday so please watch for it.

I’ll pop in to say ‘hi’ before the festivities get going. Then our very dynamic writer/teacher Alejandro Nodarse will conduct this workshop:

Telling Our Truth: Writing About the Everyday Extraordinary
 
Anne Lamott once said: “You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.” This session explores broad approaches to identifying and developing new writing projects based on our personal histories. Which moments are rife with raw material and exploding with potential? Where is the “emotional heat”, as Cristina García says, that drives our narratives? How does one excavate facts, details, and meaning from everyday experiences? A blend of lecture and generative exercises, this session will help writers identify which personal experiences might tell a good story while structuring the events for maximum clarity and emotional impact. 

BIO

Alejandro Nodarse holds an MFA from the University of Miami and is an alum of Las Dos Brujas Writers Conference and a former staff member of the VONA Writers Conference. He has been the Fiction Artist in Residence at The Deering Estate in Miami, a finalist for the 2019 CINTAS Foundation Fellowship, a 2020 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Fellow, and an Honorable Mention in both the 2020 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowship as well as 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 the University of Nebraska. 

Looking forward to seeing you all!

Abrazos,

Cristina