Sitemap - 2023 - LAS DOS BRUJAS WRITING NEWSLETTER
JUST IN: workshop offerings & a job opportunity in San Francisco!
Writing post #111: CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
New opportunities in the New Year!
From The Center for Fiction: "CULTURAL CONCOCTIONS"
Writing prompt #109 : WABI-SABI
Upcoming Pen Event on 12/11: CONVERSATION AMID CRISIS
Celebrating poets: NÂZIM HIKMET
Deadline approaching: Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Writing Residency
Thinking prompt #31: HOW FAMILIAR IS THE FAMILIAR?
The latest report from PEN on the rise of banned books ...
UPDATE: Sunday 12/3 BOOK CLUB POSTPONED until after the NEW YEAR!
NEXT SUNDAY! Our third book club meeting is on Dec. 3, 1 pm ET/ 10 am PT!
Writing prompt #108: HAPPINESS
More year-end deadlines & opportunities!
Zoom link for ANCESTORS WORKSHOP w/Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa. Sun 11/12 @ 1 pm ET / 10 am PT
Thinking prompt #30: DEPICTING MENTAL ILLNESS
Upcoming events in Austin and Miami! Plus our book club meeting on 12/3!
Update from Las Dos Brujas alum: poet Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Thinking prompt #29: A PERSIMMON
More late autumn deadlines & opportunities ...
Writing prompt #106: PRETENDING
ROOTED & WRITTEN WRITERS CONFERENCE IN San Francisco
Save the date! Our next book club is on Sun., December 3, 1 pm ET/ 10 am PT
Writing prompt #105: USEFUL ENEMIES
Writing prompt #105: SUBJECTIVITY & THE MOMENT
Sale on Latinx Books for Hispanic Heritage Month!
LITQUAKE in San Francisco & more!
For poets and flash fiction writers ...
ZOOM LINK TO WORKS-IN-PROGRESS READING, Sunday 9/24 at 10 am PT/ 1 pm ET.
TONIGHT! My reading at the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco ... 6 PM!
Writing prompt #104: THE SOUND OF YOUR CHARACTER'S VOICE
REMINDER: Work-in-progress reading next Sun. 9/24 at 1 pm ET/ 10 am PT!
Writing prompt #103: THE TYRANT
New opportunities and fall deadlines!
TONIGHT! My reading at the Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco ... 6 PM!
Writing prompt #102: WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF?
Celebrating poets: NELLY SACHS
Writing prompt #101: THE EXTRAORDINARY ORDINARY
UPDATE: Listen to KQED FORUM interview
Free on Tuesday afternoon? Join us!
Writing prompt #100: CROSSING A LINE
SAVE THE DATE: Las Dos Brujas Online Reading (An invitation)
Thinking prompt #27: UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Quick Recommendation from Marisel Vera
Writing prompt #99: FOCUSING ON YOUR BEGINNING & ENDING
TOMORROW: Washington Post LIVE Interview!
Celebrating poets: ARACELIS GIRMAY
Zoom link for BOOK CLUB Sunday 8/6 @ 1-2 PM ET (East Coast Time)
Book Club is on for this Sunday, August 6 at 1 PM ET!
A bumper crop of new opportunities & residencies!
Reminder about our next book club meeting Sunday, Aug. 6!
Thinking prompt #26: PLAYING WITH TIME
NYC Brujas, c'mon over! Tomorrow Tues 7/25 @ 7 PM at The Center for Fiction
Your literary dog or other pet? (A silly summer break invitation)
Quick announcement from Jane Ciabattari
Writing prompt #97: FREE RESPONSE
Interview & Essay: Ana Menéndez
Writing prompt #96: WHAT WE CARRY
Upcoming opportunities & deadlines
Writing prompt #95: SHE SAID/THEY SAID
Resource: The Center for Fiction
Writing prompt #94: WANTING v. GETTING
Library-in-progress of Las Dos Brujas authors
Writing prompt #93: SAME ROOM, THREE WAYS
July Book Tour for my novel, VANISHING MAPS!
Thinking prompt #25: HOLDING BACK
Update on Las Dos Brujas Book Club. Next up: THE APARTMENT by Ana Menéndez!
A library of LAS DOS BRUJAS authors? (An invitation)
Writing prompt #92: LOST & FOUND
VACATION + LINK + SAVE THE DATE!
Writing prompt #91: THE ART OF METAPHORS (REDUX)
Another Lithub Interview by Jane Ciabattari
Thinking prompt #24: YOUR ESSENTIAL QUESTION
Who reads your work in-progress? (An invitation)
Upcoming events from two of my favorite bookstores
Spring Literary Opportunities & Deadlines
Writing prompt #88: TWO PAGES (REDUX)
What are you reading? (An invitation)
URGENT: USE THIS ZOOM LINK for Q&A ON REVISION, Sun, April 2 at 10 am PT/ 1 pm ET!!
TOMORROW!! Zoom link for Q & A: ON REVISION, Sunday, April 2 @ 1 pm ET/10 am PT
Thinking prompt #23: ESSENTIAL HISTORY
Writing prompt #87: DEEPENING THE ARGUMENT
Celebrating poets: KEVIN YOUNG
Writing prompt #86: PORTRAYING ANIMALS
Tell us your good news! (An invitation)
Writing prompt #85: ON SEEING, One Girl's Growing Up
SAVE THE DATE! Q & A: ON REVISION with Cristina García on Sun, April 2 at 1 pm ET
Writing prompt #85: EMBRACING THE IMPOSSIBLE
Recommending Books: THE PRESIDENT AND THE FROG by Carolina (Caro) de Robertis
Writing prompt #84: PROPAGANDA
Looking for a summer workshop?
Two weeks from today! Las Dos Brujas Book Club kicks off on SUN., March 5 at 1 pm ET!
Writing prompt #83: WHAT IS BEAUTY?
Readings, deadlines, and more ...
"The 10 books I needed to write my novel" by Ocean Vuong—and an invitation ...
Writing prompt #82: GRACIELA ITURBIDE, PHOTOGRAPHER
Celebrating poets: TRACY K. SMITH
Thinking prompt #22: THOUGHTS FROM PLAYWRIGHT DAVID MAMET
Recommending Books: MEN WE REAP by Jesmyn Ward
Upcoming deadlines and events!
Free write to JAZZ! (An experiment)
Thinking prompt #21: FROM POET JANE HIRSCHFIELD
Celebrating poets: Ana Luísa Amaral
SAVE THE DATE! Our Las Dos Brujas Book Club kicks off on Sunday, March 5 at 1 pm ET!
Writing prompt #81: POWER & FORGIVENESS