Writing Workshop

This mini workshop is meant to flex our muscles as creative non fiction writers. 

"Throw away the abstraction and the academic learning, the rules, the map and compass. Feel your way without blinders. To touch more people, the personal realities and the social must be evoked–not through rhetoric but through blood and pus and sweat.

Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues on fire. Don’t let the pen banish you from yourself. Don’t let the ink coagulate in your pens. Don’t let the censor snuff out the spark, nor the gags muffle your voice. Put your shit on the paper."

 - Gloria Anzaldua, Chicanx feminist writer.

Write your own personal or poltical narrative in the form of a letter, poem, or short essay. Facilitators will have a prompt or…