Sophie Nau is back for another generative food writing workshop.
Great food writing utilizes sensory details to convey touch/smell/sensation/ambience, as well as personal emotion while avoiding cliche. Fiction and food writer Sophie Nau will lead our workshop and teach us how to use food to the fullest in our stories.
Detailed and sensory descriptions will strengthen your prose, and there is an art to writing food. Food is both individual and universal. It can take us home or bring us places we've never visited. Fiction, nonfiction writers, and poets can use this workshop to strengthen their craft.
This is a generative workshop, so you will leave with pieces of writing to expand on or use in your projects.
We will start with reading excerpts from writers who use vivid food imagery in their work.
Then, we will dive into the craft.
Finally, Sophie will guide us through prompts that draw from your personal food memory that you can construct into scenes or vignettes, paying particular attention to the details, emotions, and experiences surrounding food.
Piety & Desire, the heavenly chocolate shop, is generously hosting this event. The setting is sure to inspire some delicious writing.
This event is full.
About Sophie
Sophie is a fiction and food writer born and raised in Los Angeles. She is a contributing writer for Country Roads and Edible Los Angeles, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Time spent baking pastries and pouring wine in restaurants in L.A., New York, and New Orleans has influenced her writing about food culture and women at work. Find her on Substack at Culinaria.