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Palabras del Pueblo
Spring 2024
The Lore of a Life Story / Wandering Worlds
With Rios de la Luz
Rios de la Luz is the author of the novella, Itzá (Broken River Books), and the short story collections, The Pulse between Dimensions and the Desert (Ladybox Books), and An Altar of Stories to Liminal Saints (Broken River Books). Rios is a queer bruja who loves to write surreal stories involving matriarchal families, rebellious women, and the sweet heartaches of being a parent. Her generative writing workshops focus on writing about magic, the body, and the weird.
Author website: https://riosdelaluz.blog/
Class Description
This generative writing workshop will primarily focus on creative nonfiction to create mythos based on your lived experiences. Prompts will focus on writing from body memories and exploring liminal spaces that sit in the portals of your imagination. We will build from there.
This workshop focuses on YOU.
Your origin story.
Your roots.
The characters you bring to life.
Your call to be a storyteller.
Class Outline
This generative writing workshop will primarily focus on creative nonfiction to create mythos based on your lived experiences. Prompts will focus on writing from body memories and exploring liminal spaces that sit in the portals of your imagination. We will build from there.
This workshop focuses on YOU.
Your origin story.
Your roots.
The characters you bring to life.
Your call to be a storyteller.
This generative workshop is fast paced and fun, meaning we will take anywhere from 7 minutes to 15 minutes with multiple prompts, together, in a space where you are encouraged to get weird, colorful, cryptic, chaotic with your sentence structure and stories. There will be space to share your words with other writers and get brief live feedback. A portion of the class will focus on character building and then interweaving who they are with who you are/have been/will be.
Topics explored:
Breaking Tradition
Dreamscapes
Liminal Spaces in your neighborhood
Lineage
Truths
Liars
Cryptids
Birth/Rebirth
Our bodies as storytellers
Day 1 -- The Lore of a Life Story: Writing a mythos based on your lived experiences
Day 2 -- The Characters in our Lives: Building the character you already know
Day 3 -- The Wilderness in our words: Our Bodies as Echoes of Lore
Day 4 -- Your Character is Real: Chisme, Lineage, and Animism
This workshop is open to all levels of writers, poets, and storytellers. We will be writing together in an encouraging and creative space. Let’s get weird!