A Flooding: Writing Our Way Back Home with Vanessa Mártir (CRAFT TALK SERIES)
ABOUT THE CRAFT TALK
Toni Morrison once likened writers to the Mississippi River, which was redirected and often floods in its search for its original path. “Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory—what the nerves and the skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a rush of imagination is our ‘flooding’.” In this craft talk, we will interrogate the power of place, and how we remember the places we’ve been and called home.
Home is wrought with emotion, because of what we experienced there and what the world tells us about where we come from. Place is location, emotion, people, and things. Place IS story. Vanessa Mártir will explain and show you why.
Date & Time: May 13, 2021 at 7 EST
Duration: 1.5 hours
Tuition: $30
Capacity: Limited. Seats are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Venue: Online. Link to the Craft Talk will be emailed in the week leading up to it.
ABOUT THE MASTER STORYTELLER:
Vanessa Mártir is the founder of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound Movement. Her work has been widely published, including in The NY Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, The Rumpus, Bitch Magazine, and the NYTimes Bestselling anthology Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay. When she's not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa in the woods somewhere, listening to and learning from nature. For more, visit vanessamartir.com.
ABOUT THE CRAFT TALK
Toni Morrison once likened writers to the Mississippi River, which was redirected and often floods in its search for its original path. “Writers are like that: remembering where we were, what valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the route back to our original place. It is emotional memory—what the nerves and the skin remember as well as how it appeared. And a rush of imagination is our ‘flooding’.” In this craft talk, we will interrogate the power of place, and how we remember the places we’ve been and called home.
Home is wrought with emotion, because of what we experienced there and what the world tells us about where we come from. Place is location, emotion, people, and things. Place IS story. Vanessa Mártir will explain and show you why.
Date & Time: May 13, 2021 at 7 EST
Duration: 1.5 hours
Tuition: $30
Capacity: Limited. Seats are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Venue: Online. Link to the Craft Talk will be emailed in the week leading up to it.
ABOUT THE MASTER STORYTELLER:
Vanessa Mártir is the founder of the Writing Our Lives Workshop and the Writing the Mother Wound Movement. Her work has been widely published, including in The NY Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, The Rumpus, Bitch Magazine, and the NYTimes Bestselling anthology Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay. When she's not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa in the woods somewhere, listening to and learning from nature. For more, visit vanessamartir.com.