Writing is like making a fluffy tortilla, if you aren’t completely present with the process of kneading the masa, the tortilla won’t rise. Join author Anel Flores, and Erika Casasola, Mexican curandera, to enter on a path to more authentic and fulfilling writing practice. More than flipping scene by scene through the writer’s life, their memories, their research, and countless rough drafts, the writing process can also involve exploring memories of childhood, youth, adulthood, or ancestral blood memory. In this workshop, we’ll open up the creative process using the traditional curanderismo (healing) practice of conversation, the “platica.” You’ll come away with a tool bag of ideas for future writing and some suggestions for sharing and submitting your work for publication.  

Online Workshop with Holly Walrath   If you'd like to produce good work and publish or need professional support through the process of drafting, revising, and submitting a piece from start-to-finish, this is the workshop for you. Through writing exercises, we'll create new work; through group feedback sessions and revision, we'll polish and submit it. This open genre course empowers participants with an understanding of the fundamental process of being a writer so that they can repeat it on their own.  …

Poetry workshop with jo reyes- boitel The novel in verse traces its origin to the epic poem, filled with its heroes and battles. Its recent literary resurgence speaks to its ability to provide a voice to marginalized communities. This four-session workshop will bridge the structure and narrative of the novel with the immediacy and imagery of poetry. Participants will consider contemporary examples of the form and begin their own novel in verse. jo reyes-boitel is a poet, playwright, and essayist. Texas…