Writing your Life w/ Vanessa Mártir

There are stories that live in our bodies and circle our consciousness; stories we tell and stories we hide. And there are people (like you) who feel pulled to write those stories down. But how and where do you begin?

In this class, participants will examine why they want to write about their lives, and what it is they want to write about. They’ll be led through exercises to get them started, and we’ll study writing craft techniques to develop their personal stories and characters.

About the Facilitator:

Vanessa Mártir writes memoir and fiction, is a wanna be poet & playwright, and the creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound Movement. She has been widely published, including in The NY Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Aster(ix), and the anthologies Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay &…