How to Outline (Especially if You Hate To) Led By Cinelle Barnes

Saturday, April 23rd & Sunday, April 24th, 2022 | 11:00 AM ET - 2:00 PM ET

Tuition | $100.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

Join this workshop to learn outline tools and tricks that will help you ideate fiction and nonfiction projects, activate your ideas into drafts, and sculpt your drafts into their best, pitch-worthy form. With the help of several visual aids, such as handouts and posters, Storytellers will generate new work or revise works-in-progress in a synchronous class with author, editor, and educator Cinelle Barnes. You'll take home said visual aids and walk away with the very same tools Cinelle used in the writing of Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir and Malaya: Essays on Freedom, and the editing of A Measure of Belonging, a Hub City Press book, and many other long and short works. This class will help you see the outline not as a crutch or confinement, but as a warm-up for your writing practice, scaffolding for the stories you're building, and thermometer for the temperature you're trying to strike.

About the Faculty: Cinelle Barnes (she/her) is a formerly undocumented memoirist, essayist, and educator from Manila, Philippines, and is the author of MONSOON MANSION: A MEMOIR and MALAYA: ESSAYS ON FREEDOM, and the editor of the New York Times New & Noteworthy book, A MEASURE OF BELONGING: 21 WRITERS OF COLOR ON THE NEW AMERICAN SOUTH. Cinelle earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Converse College. Her work has appeared or been featured in the New York Times, Longreads, Electric Literature, CNN Philippines, and A Map Is Only One Story: 20 Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home. She’s the 2021 Pasadena City College Writer-in-Residence and a contributing editor, instructor, and writer at Catapult.

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

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.