The Real Writing is in the Revision with Jasminne Mendez
July 7 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm CDT
$90Monday(s) July 7 & 14, 2025 6:30-8:00 pm cst via Zoom
Nonmember $90 Member $75 Student $63
*EARN CPEs
TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
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Have you ever sat down to revise a piece of writing but had no idea where to begin? Or have you started revising only to find yourself stuck halfway through? If you find revision to be an intimidating and messy process, then this class is for you!
In this two-part lecture, writers of any genre and at any stage in their craft will learn practical revision strategies to help refine and reimagine their drafts and works-in-progress. We will discuss how to assess what needs to be revised, including beginnings and endings, scenes and plots, syntax and diction, metaphors and more. Then, we will explore visual organization tools such as note cards, sticky notes, and highlighters. Students will leave with tools to continue these editing practices following the lecture.
This lecture is open to writers of all skill levels 18+.
By the end of the lecture students will have:
- Practical, concrete revision strategies
- Ideas for visual organization
- A plan for setting revision goals before writing
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Jasminne Mendez is a best-selling Dominican-American poet, translator, playwright, audio book narrator and award-winning author of several books for children and adults. Her middle grade novel-in-verse Aniana del Mar Jumps In (Dial) received the 2024 Pura Belpre Honor Award. Her other books have received prizes from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Writer’s League of Texas and the International Latino Book Awards. Her YA fiction debut The Story of My Anger (Dial) will be out September 2025. She is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and a University of Houston alumni. She is the Program Director for the literary arts non-profit Tintero Projects and she lives and works in Houston, TX.
Instagram: @jasminnemendez
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