Diving Into The Wreck: The Role of Research in Writing Our Stories Led By Vanessa Mártir

Saturdays, July 9th and 16th, 2022 | 11 AM ET - 2 PM ET

Tuition | $50.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

Are the stories about our lives and/or those of our characters enough? What’s the purpose of research when writing creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry? How can we bring the world (pop culture, current events, local and world headlines) into our work to add depth, nuance and metaphor, and to place our stories in time? In this workshop, we will discuss the purpose of research, and we will delve into and practice methods we can use to focus our research and avoid going down the research rabbit hole, an all too easy thing to do (trust me, I know!). We will also dig into why and how research can increase our understanding of people, topics and ideas, and even ourselves and our place in the world.

About the Faculty: Vanessa Mártir (she/her) is a big-hearted, Brooklyn-raised bocona who writes personal essays, memoir & novels. She is a 2021 Letras Boricuas Fellow & the creator of the Writing Our Lives Workshop & the Writing the Mother Wound Movement. Vanessa has been widely published including in in The NY Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Longreads, The Rumpus, and Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay. Vanessa has partnered with Tin House and The Rumpus to publish WOL alumni, and with Longreads and NYU's Latinx Project to publish Mother Wound essays. When she's not writing or teaching, you can find Vanessa in her garden or hiking in an old growth forest talking to trees and birds.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Closed Captioning available. Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.