Sunday Writers Salon

This interactive writing workshop invites participants to explore food as memory, metaphor, and a reflection of our social realities. Writers will begin with personal food stories—meals tied to home, comfort, labor, and survival—and gradually expand their writing to consider questions of food justice: who has access to nourishment, who grows and prepares our food, and who is most often excluded.

Through guided writing exercises, conversation, and optional sharing, participants will generate new work that connects the personal to the collective, using food as a powerful entry point into storytelling.

Facilitator:

Yaddy is a Dominican American writer and community educator from Uptown, New York City. Yaddy’s writing lives at the intersection of immigrant and first-generation experiences, centering stories from people we’re often taught to overlook and honoring everyday acts of resilience and change. Yaddy recently earned her Master’s in Public Health, which informs her thoughts about access, support, and the systems…