2023 Writer's Salon Workshops Series

How to Submit to Artists and Writers Residencies: a workshop on writing your artist statement and other application components to attain an artist or writing residency fellowship.  If you are interested in applying to an artist or writers residency, this workshop is for you. Elements of the components of a successful application will be discussed, and we will have example essay-writing questions to practice on.

Ms. Ortiz holds a Master’s in Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing from Pine Manor College and is a writer and poet. She co-edited All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014) with writer and editor, Rochelle Spencer. Her short story, “Maribel y El Viejo,” was published in the anthology, Daring to Write: Contemporary Writings by Dominican Women (University of Georgia Press, 2016) She has numerous poems published in poetry and literary journals and magazines. She is currently working on a culinary writing project and revising a middle grade novel.   Ms.Ortiz is the Founder, Principal and Broker Realtor of HestiaLiving Corporation, a real estate firm. She assists clients with both commercial and residential properties, when she is not writing book-length manuscripts for publications.