Belle Point Press
Generative Writing Workshop: On Memory
Generative Writing Workshop: On Memory
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On Memory: A Generative Workshop
Led by Bianca Alyssa Pérez
Saturday, February 25, 2:00 - 3:15 pm Central Time
Virtual
This workshop draws inspiration from participants' memories, using memories as a personal archive for creative work. The workshop opens conversation about the relationship between personal narrative, transcendence, and community to explore healing. Using Gloria Anzaldua's imagistic ideas of "nepantla" and "cenote" as a baseline, participants will use these same theories to confront their personal archives/memories to inspire writing (I will provide pull quotes from relevant Anzalduan texts). They will be asked to write about a family memory in as much detail as possible. Participants will then exchange memories with each other and write a piece that remembers that memory from another perspective.
- Registration fee: $30
- Participants will receive the meeting link and any relevant prep materials after registration closes
- Up to 3 fee waivers are available; reach out to Casie at editor@bellepointpress.com for more information--no questions asked.
Bianca Alyssa Pérez was born and raised in Mission, Texas–a small southern town bordering Mexico. She holds her MFA in Poetry from Texas State University, where she also teaches. She is the 2022-2023 Clark House Writer-In-Residence. Her chapbook, Gemini Gospel, is forthcoming from Host Publications. You can find her writing in Magma Poetry UK, ReclamationATX, Psst! Press’ The Sappho Diaries, East French Press, The New York Quarterly, Re-side Magazine, The Ice Colony Anthology and The Porter House Review. She is also the co-host of the horror podcast, Basement Girls with writer Steph Grossman.
